National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004)Chapter 4 : Threatened or Protected Ecosystems and SpeciesPart 1 : Protection of threatened or protected ecosystems54. Certain plans to take into account in protection of listed ecosystems |
An organ of state that must prepare an environmental implementation or environmental management plan in terms of Chapter 3 of the National Environmental Management Act, and a municipality that must adopt an integrated development plan in terms of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000), must take into account the need for the protection of listed ecosystems.