National Environment Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No. 24 of 2008)RegulationsDumping at Sea Regulations5. Request for verbal authorisation |
| (1) | A person intending to undertake immediate emergency dumping in terms of regulation 4(1)(a) must request and obtain prior verbal authorisation by telephonically contacting the Director responsible for marine pollution at the Department. |
| (2) | An applicant must, in the telephonic request contemplated in subregulation (1), provide the Director with the following information: |
| (a) | location of the vessel, platform or aircraft; |
| (b) | the waste or other material intended for dumping; |
| (c) | full details of the identity of the applicant; |
| (d) | the volume or mass of the waste or other material intended for dumping; |
| (e) | the location of the intended disposal site; |
| (f) | a motivation explaining the nature of the urgency and why the emergency is of such a nature that there is no time for the submission of a written application in terms of regulation 4(1)(b); |
| (g) | when the emergency dumping is intended to take place; and |
| (h) | any other information requested by the Director. |