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

Chapter 11 : General Powers and Duties

Part 1 : Regulations

84. Regulations by MEC

 

(1) The MEC of a province may, after consultation with the Minister, make regulations that are consistent with any national norms or standards that may have been prescribed, relating to—
(a) the implementation and enforcement of the coastal management programme of the province;
(b) the management of the coastal protection zone within the province;
(c) the use of coastal public property for recreational purposes;
(d) the impounding, removal and disposal of vehicles, vessels, aircraft or property found abandoned on coastal public property;
(e) coastal management lines, including the granting of permission for the erection, placing, alteration or extension of a structure that is wholly or partially seaward of a coastal management line and the process to be followed for acquiring such permission, including the authority by whom, the circumstances in which and the conditions on which such permission may be given;

[Subsection (1)(e) substituted by section 48(a) of Act No. 36 of 2014]

(f) the implementation within the province of any national norm, framework or standard referred to in section 83(1)(f);
(g) the management of special management areas; or
(h) any other matter referred to in section 83(1), other than in paragraph (f) of that section, that may be necessary to facilitate the implementation of this Act in the province.

 

(2) Any regulation which will entail the expenditure of funds in future years may be made only with the concurrence of the MEC responsible for finance in the province.

 

(3) The Minister, after consultation with the relevant MEC, must make regulations in terms of subsections (1)(b), (c), (d) and (e), if such regulations relate to any part of an area that—
(a) is a national protected area as defined in the Protected Areas Act;
(b) straddles a coastal boundary between two provinces; or
(c) extends up to, or straddles, the borders of the Republic.

[Subsection (3) inserted by section 48(b) of Act No. 36 of 2014]