Environment Conservation Amendment Act, 1993 (No. 94 of 1993).

Country/Territory: South Africa
Document type: Legislation
Date: 1993
Source: FAO, FAOLEX
Original source: Government Gazette 14926.
Long title: An Act to amend the Environment Conservation Act, 1989, so as to substitute a new committee for the Committee for Environmental Management; to assign to or impose upon the new committee certain powers, functions and duties; to provide for the election of an executive committee and the appointment of subcommittees by such new committee; to provide for the payment of allowances to certain members of such subcommittees and to persons co-opted onto such new committee; to regulate the meetings and decisions of the new committee; and to substitute a certain obsolete expression; and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Subject: Environment gen.
Keyword: Institution
Geographical area: Africa, South Atlantic, Southern Africa

Abstract: This Act amends the Environment Conservation Act, 1989 and establishes the Committee for Environmental Co-ordination. This Committee replaces the Committee for Environmental Management. The Act defines the powers, functions and duties of Committee, defines the composition of the Committee and grants powers to the Committee to appoint an executive committee and subcommittees. The principal Act is also amended by the substitution for the expression "Minister of Finance", wherever it occurs, of the expression "Minister of State Expenditure".
Full text: English
Website: www.info.gov.za

References - Legislation

Amends

Environment Conservation Act. No. 73 OF 1989.

Legislation | South Africa | 1989 (2009)

Keyword: Framework law, Protected area, Institution, Authorization/permit, Ecosystem preservation, Pollution control, EIA, Noise pollution, Marine protected areas, Marine area, Waste management, Freshwater pollution

Source: FAO, FAOLEX