Regulations relating to identification of environmental management inspectors (No. R. 619 of 2005)

STAATSKOERANT, 1 JULIE 2005 No. 27713 11 GOVERNMENT NOTICES GOEWERMENTSKENNISGEWINGS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS AND TOURISM DEPARTEMENT VAN OMGEWINGSAKE EN TOERISME No. R. 619 1 July2005 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT, 1998 REGULATIONS RELATING TO IDENTIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INSPECTORS The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has in terms of section 47(1) of the National Environmental Management Act 1998 (Act 107 of 1998), made the regulations set out in the Schedule hereto. SCHEDULE Definitions I. assigned in the Act has the same meaning, and In these Regulations a word or expression to which a meaning has been "Act" means the National Environmental Management Act 1998 (Act 107 of 1998): "designating authority" means (a) a person to whom the Minister's power contained in section 318 of the Act to designate persons as environmental management inspectors has been delegated in terms of section 42 of the Act; :b) an MEC acting in term of section 31C of the Act; or 12 No. 27713 GOVERNMENT GAZElTE, 1 JULY 2005 (c) a person to whom the MEC's power contained in section 31C of the Act to designate persons as environmental management inspectors has been delegated in terms of section 42A of the Act; Identity cards 2. (1) issued to each person designated as an environmental management inspector (a) (b) The identity card that must in terms of section 31 F of the Act be must comply with subregulation (2); and may only be issued by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, or a person authorised to do so by the Director-General of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism; and must be in the standard format and layout prescribed by the Director General of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. (c) (2) An identity card must dontain the full names and ID numbec of the person designated as an environmental management inspector; a recent photograph of that person; the organ of state of which that person is an employee and the employee number of that person; the Act or specific environmental management Act, or the specific provisions of the Act or a specific environmental management Act, for which the person is designated as an environmental management inspector in terms of section 31 D (1) or (2) of the Act; the full names and post description of the designating authority who designated the person as an environmental management inspector; STAATSKOERANT, 1 JULIE 2005 NO. 27713 13 (9 the signature of the designating authority; and (9) the date on which the person was designated as an environmental management inspector. (3) The Department of Environmental Affiirs and Tourism must issue an identity card on request from a designating authority and on receipt of the information detailed in subregulation (2). (a) to (9). (4) The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism must keep a detailed record of all persons in respect of whom an identity card was issued.