National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998)

Chapter 7 : Compliance, Enforcement and Protection

Part 2 : Application and enforcement of Act and any specific environmental management Act

31A. Application
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(1)This Part applies to the enforcement of this Act and any specific environmental management Act.

 

(2)In this Part, unless inconsistent with the context, a word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in a specific environmental management Act has, in relation to the administration or enforcement of that Act, the meaning assigned to it in that Act.

 

(3)For the purposes of this Part, Schedule 1 to the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (Act No. 5 1 of 1977): is deemed to include an offence committed in terms of this Act or a specific environmental management Act.