National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act, 2003 (Act No. 57 of 2003)

Notices

Norms and Standards for the Inclusion of Private Nature Reserves in the Register of Protected Areas of South Africa

Chapter 2 : The process to verify the existence of a Private Nature Reserve

7. Proof of declaration
Purchase cart Previous page Return to chapter overview Next page

 

A copy of a notice of declaration of a nature reserve in respect of private land published in the Gazette by the MEC must be submitted by the MEC to the Minister as contemplated in section 27 of the Act. This will include—

(a)gazette number, and the date of publication;
(b) empowering provision of the Act, in temp of which the notice of declaration is published;
(c) name of the area;
(d) description of the area;
(e) survey diagramme; and
(f) endorsed title deed.