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

Chapter 6 : Bioprospecting, Access and Benefit-Sharing

81A. Notification requirements

 

(1) No person may, without first notifying the Minister, engage in the discovery phase of bioprospecting involving any indigenous biological resources.

 

(2) A notice referred to in subsection (1) must be in such form and must contain such other particulars as may be prescribed.

 

(3) A person involved in the discovery phase of bioprospecting must sign a prescribed commitment to comply with the requirements at the commercialisation phase of bioprospecting.

 

[Section 81A inserted by section 39 of Act No. 14 of 2009, effective 1 April 2011 (Proclamation No. 17 dated 11 March 2011)]