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National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004 (Act No. 39 of 2004)

Chapter 2 : National Framework and National, Provincial and Local Standards

Part 2 : National, provincial and local ambient air quality and emission standards

9. National standards

 

( 1) The Minister, by notice in the Gazette
(a) must identify substances or mixtures of substances in ambient air which through ambient concentrations, bioaccumulation, deposition or in any other way, present a threat to health, well-being or the environment or which the Minister reasonably believes present such a threat; and
(b) must, in respect of each of those substances or mixtures of substances, establish national standards for ambient air quality, including the permissible amount or concentration of each such substance or mixture of substances in ambient air; and
(c) may, in respect of each of those substances or mixtures of substances, establish national standards for emissions from point, non-point or mobile sources.

 

(2) Section 7(3)(a),( 4), ( 5 ) and (6), with the necessary changes as the context may require, apply to a notice published in terms of this section.