National Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998)Chapter 2 : Water Management StrategiesPart 2 : Catchment management strategies8. Establishment of catchment management strategies |
| (1) | A catchment management agency contemplated in Chapter 7 must, by notice in the Gazette, establish a catchment management strategy for the protection, use, development, conservation, management and control of water resources within its water management area. |
| (2) | The notice must state the address where the strategy may be inspected. |
| (3) | A catchment management strategy— |
| (a) | may be established in a phased and progressive manner and in separate components over time; and |
| (b) | must be reviewed at intervals of not more than five years. |
| (4) | A catchment management strategy or any component of that strategy may only be established with the written consent of the Minister. |
| (5) | Before establishing a catchment management strategy or any component of that strategy in terms of subsection (1), a catchment management agency must— |
| (a) | publish a notice in the Gazette— |
| (i) | setting out a summary of the proposed catchment management strategy or the component in question; |
| (ii) | stating the address where the proposed strategy or the component in question is available for inspection; and |
| (iii) | inviting written comments to be submitted on the proposed strategy or the component in question, specifying an address to which and a date before which comments must be submitted, which date may not be earlier than 90 days after publication of the notice; |
| (b) | consider what further steps, if any, are appropriate to bring the contents of the notice to the attention of interested persons, and take those steps which the catchment management agency considers to be appropriate; and |
| (c) | consider all comments received on or before the date specified in paragraph 3(a)(iii). |