National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004)

Chapter 5 : Species and Organisms Posing Potential Threats to Biodiversity

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(1)	The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, and subject to such conditions as the Minister may specify in the notice, exempt—

(a)	any alien species specified in the notice; or

(b)	any alien species of a category specified in the notice; or

(c)	any person,

from the provisions of section 65.

[Section 66(1) substituted by section 13(a) of Act No. 14 of 2013]

(2)	Any person may carry out a restricted activity involving a specimen of an exempted alien species without a permit mentioned in section 65(1).

(3)	The Minister must regularly review a notice published in terms of subsection (1).

(4)	The notice in terms of subsection (1) may—

(a)	apply generally—

(i)	throughout the Republic or a province, as the case may be, or only in a specified area or a specified category of areas;

(ii)	to all persons or only to a specified category of persons;

(iii)

to all species or only to a specified species or specified category of species; or

(b)	differentiate between—

(i)	areas or categories of areas;

(ii)	persons or categories of persons; or

(iii)

species or categories of species.

[Section 66(4) inserted by section 13(b) of Act No. 14 of 2013]

[Section 66 commenced 1 April 2005 (Proclamation No. R. 47, Gazette No. 26887)]