National Environment Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No. 24 of 2008)Chapter 6 : Coastal ManagementPart 3 : Municipal coastal management programmes48. Preparation and adoption of municipal coastal management programmes |
| (1) | A coastal municipality— |
| (a) | must, within four years of the commencement of this Act, prepare and adopt a municipal coastal management programme for managing the coastal zone or specific parts of the coastal zone in the municipality; |
| (b) | must review any programme adopted by it at least once every five years; and |
| (c) | may, when necessary, amend the programme. |
| (2) | Before adopting a programme contemplated in subsection (1)(a), a municipality must by notice in the Gazette invite members of the public to submit written representations on or objections to the programme in accordance with the procedure contemplated in Chapter 4 of the Municipal Systems Act. |
| (3) | A municipality must, within 60 days of the adoption of the municipal coastal management programme or of any substantial amendment to it— |
| (a) | give notice to the public— |
| (i) | of the adoption of the programme; and |
| (ii) | that copies of, or extracts from the programme are available for public inspection at specified places; and |
| (b) | publicise a summary of the programme. |
| (4) | A municipality may prepare and adopt a coastal management programme as part of an integrated development plan and spatial development framework adopted in accordance with the Municipal Systems Act and if it does so, compliance with the public participation requirements prescribed in terms of the Municipal Systems Act for the preparation and adoption of integrated development plans will be regarded as compliance with public participation requirements in terms of this Act. |