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

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Regulations pertaining to threatened or protected terrestrial species and freshwater species, 2023 - effective 1 April 2023

Section A: Provisions relating to Listed Threatened or Protected Species

Chapter 3 : Registration of Captive Breeding Facilities, Rehabilitation Facilities, Sanctuaries, Temporary Holding Facilities, Scientific Institutions, Commercial Exhibition Facilities, Nurseries, Game Farms and Wildlife Translocators

Part 1 - Registration of persons or facilities

38. Application for registration

 

(1) A person may apply for registration on an application form provided by the relevant issuing authority, which contains, as a minimum, the information as set out in subregulation (2).

 

(2) An application form contemplated in subregulation (1) must, to the extent applicable, make provision for the following information:
(a) the applicant's details, including—
(i) the applicant's name;
(ii) the name of the owner of the property, facility or venture, as the case may be,if the applicant is not the owner;
(iii) identity or passport number;
(iv) telephone number;
(v) cell phone number;
(vi) fax number;
(vii) e-mail address;
(viii) postal address; and
(ix) physical address:
(b) details of the facility including the—
(i) name of the facility;
(ii) kind of facility;
(iii) size of the facility (in hectare);
(iv) date of establishment of the facility;
(v) physical address where the restricted activities will be carried out; and
(vi) farm name and registration number;
(c) details of specimens of the species involved, including—
(i) scientific name (genus, species, and to the extent applicable the sub-species);
(ii) common name (if any);
(iii) quantity of specimens per species;
(iv) sex of the specimens;
(v) size or age of the specimens, whichever is applicable; and
(vi) markings of the specimens as required by the relevant issuing authority.

 

(3) A person applying for registration must pay the applicable processing fee as set out in Annexure 3 to these Regulations.

 

(4) Notwithstanding subregulation (3), payment of the applicable processing fee does not apply to organs of state.