Long title

To amend the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, so as to define or further define certain expressions; to make further provision concerning the determination of and compliance with the policy for environmental conservation; to further regulate the constitution of the Council for the Environment; to emend certain references; to provide that the Minister may in certain instances declare private land or water to be a special nature reserve, and to extend the exemptions in respect of the prohibition on admittance to special nature reserves; to compel any person or authority in control of any place to which the public has access to remove any litter discarded, dumped or left at such place; to further define the power of the Minister of Water Affairs to issue permits in connection with disposal sites; to make further provision in connection with the identification of actions likely to have a detrimental effect on the environment; to empower Administrators also to authorize the performance of identified activities; to empower Administrators also to authorize development in limited development areas; to empower the Minister to make regulations regarding the submission of statistics on the types of waste produced; to empower the Minister to make regulations regarding the dumping of litter; to empower the Minister to make regulations regarding environmental impact reports in respect of activities prohibited in limited development areas; to delete the requirement in terms of which certain regulations may only be made applicable within the area of jurisdiction of a local authority with the concurrence of such local authority; to empower the Minister to grant exemption from the application of regulations, notices or directions promulgated or issued in terms of the Act; to extend the provision regarding offences and penalties; to confer upon the Minister, an Administrator and a local authority or government institution certain powers where the environment is damaged, endangered or detrimentally affected; to extend the powers of the Minister to delegate; and to empower persons authorized thereto by the Minister to enter upon land; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

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SECTION	TITLE
1.	[Focus: Amendment of section 1 of Act 73 of 1989]
2.	[Focus: Amendment of section 2 of Act 73 of 1989]
3.	[Focus: Amendment of section 3 of Act 73 of 1989]
4.	[Focus: Amendment of section 6 of Act 73 of 1989]
5.	[Focus: Amendment of section 13 of Act 73 of 1989]
6.	[Focus: Amendment of section 14 of Act 73 of 1989]
7.	[Focus: Amendment of section 18 of Act 73 of 1989]
8.	[Repealed by Act 2008_059_080 Schedule][Focus: Insertion of Act section 19A of Act 73 of 1989]
9.	[Repealed by Act 2008_059_080 Schedule][Focus: Substitution of section 20 of Act 73 of 1989]
10.	[Focus: Substitution of section 21(3) of Act 73 of 1989]
11.	[Focus: Substitution of section 22 of Act 73 of 1989]
12.	[Focus: Amendment of section 23 of Act 73 of 1989]
13.	[Focus: Substitution of section 24(b) of Act 73 of 1989]
14.	[Focus: Insertion of section 24A of Act 73 of 1989]
15.	[Focus: Amendment of section 26 of Act 73 of 1989]
16.	[Focus: Deletion of section 28(i)(ii) of Act 73 of 1989]
17.	[Focus: Insertion of section 28A of Act 73 of 1989]
18.	[Focus: Substitution of section 29(3) of Act 73 of 1989]
19.	[Focus: Insertion of section 31A of Act 73 of 1989]
20.	[Focus: Substitution of section 33 of Act 73 of 1989]
21.	[Focus: Insertion of section 41A of Act 73 of 1989]
22.	Short title

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