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National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008)

Chapter 5 : Licensing of Waste Management Activities

45. Application for waste management licences

 

(1) A person who requires a waste management licence must apply for the licence by lodging an application with the licensing authority.

 

(2) An application for a waste management licence must be accompanied by—
(a) the prescribed processing fee; and
(b) such documentation and information as may be reasonably required by the licensing authority.

 

(3) A person who requires a waste management licence for a waste management activity which involves the treatment of waste by incineration must submit, together with any documentation or information contemplated in subsection (2), information on—
(a) the types of waste that will be incinerated;
(b) the existence of any incinerators in the jurisdiction of the licensing authority which are authorised to incinerate waste which is substantially similar to that waste; and
(c) alternative environmentally sound methods, if any, that could be used to treat that waste.