Identification of activities which may have detrimental effect on environment: Outeniqua Sensitive Coastal Area (G.N. 879 of 1996)
Made 1996-05-31 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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- Language
- English
- Kind
- Regulation
- Organisation
- African Union (AU)
- Country
- South Africa
- Subjects
- Land and soil, Wild species and ecosystems
- Keywords
- protected area, public land, agricultural land, coastal zone management, erosion, soil conservation/soil improvement, soil rehabilitation, land tenure, marine area
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EnviroLeg cc ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION Reg p 1 GN. R. 879 GG17213 31 May 1996 IDENTIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES WHICH MAY HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT: OUTENIQUA SENSITIVE COASTAL AREA I, Dawid Jacobus de Villiers, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, hereby, under section 21 (1) of the Environment Conservation Act, 1989 (Act No. 73 of 1989), identify the activities stated in Schedule 1 as activities which may have a substantial detrimental effect on the environment in respect of the areas represented on the map in Schedule 2, which areas shall collectively be known as the Outeniqua Sensitive Coastal Areas: Provided that this notice shall not apply to activities of a like nature carried out in the normal pursuit and within the existing extent, as at the date of this Notice, of agriculture or domestic gardening in areas utilised for the said purposes, or to those activities subject to approval in terms of the Sea Shore Act, 1935 (Act No 21 of 1935), the Minerals Act, 1991 (Act No 50 of 1991), the Forest Act, 1984 (Act No 122 of 1984), or the Nature and Environmental Conservation Ordinance, 1974 (Ordinance No 19 of 1974), of the Western Cape Province. D.J. DE VILLIERS Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism SCHEDULE 1 1. Disturbance of vegetation: Deliberate trampling, cutting or removal of vegetation. 2. Earthworks: Excavation, moving, removal, depositing or compacting of soil, sand, rock or rubble. 3. Dredging: Dredging, excavation, removal, or moving of soil, sand or rock from a river, tidal lagoon, tidal river, floodplain or wetland. 4. Dune stabilisation: Planting on, or covering with any vegetative, natural or synthetic material of, dunes or exposed sand surfaces, or the erection of structures or walls thereon with the purpose of preventing the sand from being eroded, accreted or moved by wind or water. In this schedule, “tidal lagoon” and “tidal river” respectively mean tidal lagoon and a tidal river as defined in section 1 of the Sea Shore Act, 1935. EnviroLeg cc ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION Reg p 2 SCHEDULE 2