National Environment Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No. 24 of 2008)

Chapter 2 : Coastal Zone

(1)	Coastal public property is established for the following purposes:

(a)	To improve public access to the seashore;

(b)	to protect sensitive coastal ecosystems;

(c)	to secure the natural functioning of dynamic coastal processes;

(d)	to protect people, property and economic activities from risks arising from dynamic coastal processes, including the risk of sea-level rise; or

(e)	to facilitate the achievement of any of the objects of this Act.

[Section 7A inserted by section 6 of Act No. 36 of 2014]