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National Environment Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No. 24 of 2008)

Chapter 4 : Estuaries

33. National estuarine management protocol

 

(1) Estuaries within the Republic must be managed in a co-ordinated and efficient manner and in accordance with a national estuarine management protocol.

 

(2) The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for water affairs, must within four years of the commencement of this Act publish by notice in the Gazette a national estuarine management protocol.

[Subsection (2) substituted by section 22 of Act No. 36 of 2014]

 

(3) The national estuarine management protocol must—
(a) determine a strategic vision and objectives for achieving effective integrated management of estuaries;
(b) set standards for the management of estuaries;
(c) establish procedures or give guidance regarding how estuaries must be managed and how the management responsibilities are to be exercised by different organs of state and other parties;
(d) establish minimum requirements for estuarine management plans;
(e) identify who must prepare estuarine management plans and the process to be followed in doing so;
(f) specify the process for reviewing estuarine management plans to ensure that they comply with the requirements of this Act; and
(g) be published for public comment in accordance with the procedure set out in Part 5 of Chapter 6.

 

 


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