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

If a ship-to-ship transfer is listed as a discrete activity requiring environmental authorisation in terms of the National Environmental Management Act or that requires authorisation in terms of any specific environmental management Act, and that authorisation requires the development of an environmental management plan or programme, that approved plan or programme must be regarded as a STS environmental management plan in terms of regulation 8 of these Regulations, if that plan or programme meets all the requirements set out in regulation 8.