National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004)

Regulations

Regulations pertaining to threatened or protected terrestrial species and freshwater species, 2023 - effective 1 April 2023

Section A: Provisions relating to Listed Threatened or Protected Species

Chapter 3 : Registration of Captive Breeding Facilities, Rehabilitation Facilities, Sanctuaries, Temporary Holding Facilities, Scientific Institutions, Commercial Exhibition Facilities, Nurseries, Game Farms and Wildlife Translocators

Part 1 - Registration of persons or facilities

38. Application for registration

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(1) A person may apply for registration on an application form provided by the relevant issuing authority, which contains, as a minimum, the information as set out in subregulation (2).

 

(2)An application form contemplated in subregulation (1) must, to the extent applicable, make provision for the following information:
(a)the applicant's details, including—
(i)the applicant's name;
(ii)the name of the owner of the property, facility or venture, as the case may be,if the applicant is not the owner;
(iii)identity or passport number;
(iv)telephone number;
(v)cell phone number;
(vi)fax number;
(vii)e-mail address;
(viii)postal address; and
(ix)physical address:
(b)details of the facility including the—
(i)name of the facility;
(ii)kind of facility;
(iii)size of the facility (in hectare);
(iv)date of establishment of the facility;
(v)physical address where the restricted activities will be carried out; and
(vi)farm name and registration number;
(c)details of specimens of the species involved, including—
(i)scientific name (genus, species, and to the extent applicable the sub-species);
(ii)common name (if any);
(iii)quantity of specimens per species;
(iv)sex of the specimens;
(v)size or age of the specimens, whichever is applicable; and
(vi)markings of the specimens as required by the relevant issuing authority.

 

(3)A person applying for registration must pay the applicable processing fee as set out in Annexure 3 to these Regulations.

 

(4)Notwithstanding subregulation (3), payment of the applicable processing fee does not apply to organs of state.