| (2) | The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister responsible for water affairs, must within four years of the commencement of this Act publish by notice in the Gazette a national estuarine management protocol. |
[Subsection (2) substituted by section 22 of Act No. 36 of 2014]
| (3) | The national estuarine management protocol must— |
| (a) | determine a strategic vision and objectives for achieving effective integrated management of estuaries; |
| (b) | set standards for the management of estuaries; |
| (c) | establish procedures or give guidance regarding how estuaries must be managed and how the management responsibilities are to be exercised by different organs of state and other parties; |
| (d) | establish minimum requirements for estuarine management plans; |
| (e) | identify who must prepare estuarine management plans and the process to be followed in doing so; |
| (f) | specify the process for reviewing estuarine management plans to ensure that they comply with the requirements of this Act; and |
| (g) | be published for public comment in accordance with the procedure set out in Part 5 of Chapter 6. |
