National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998)Regulations in Terms of Chapter 5 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998Chapter 8 : General Matters affecting Applications and AppealsPart 3 : Other matters81. Offences |
| 1) | A person is guilty of an offence if that person— |
| a) | provides incorrect or misleading information in any document submitted in terms of these Regulations to a competent authority; |
| b) | fails to comply with regulation 7(2); |
| c) | fails to comply with a request in terms of regulation 79(2); |
| d) | contravenes or fails to comply with a condition subject to which an exemption in terms of Chapter 5 of these Regulations has seen granted; or |
| e) | continues with an activity where the environmental authorisation was withdrawn in terms of regulation 50 or suspended in terms of regulation 49. |
| 2) | A person is liable on conviction of an offence in terms of subregulation (1) to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding an amount prescribed in terms of the Adjustment of Fines Act, 1991 (Act No. 101 of 1991). |