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

Chapter 5 : Species and Organisms Posing Potential Threats to Biodiversity

Part 2 : Invasive species

71A. Prohibitions

 

(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette and subject to such conditions as the Minister may specify in the notice, specify a specimen of a listed invasive species for which a permit to carry out a restricted activity may not be issued in terms of Chapter 7.

 

(2) 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 a 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 71A inserted by section 16 of Act No. 14 of 2013]