Statistics Act, 1999
R 385
Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act, 1983 (Act No. 43 of 1983)RegulationsSoil Conservation Scheme6. Classification of soil conservation works |
| (1) | A soil conservation work may for the purposes of this scheme be classified as a protection work if the executive officer is satisfied that it is— |
| (a) | a weir that has as its object to stabilise a water course; |
| (b) | a donga barrier or embankment that has at its object to stabilise a donga or to cause it to silt up; |
| (c) | a drop-inlet, chute or training bank that has as its object to stabilise a donga head; |
| (d) | a barrier that has as its object to prevent the scouring of a donga embankment; |
| (e) | an embankment, storm-water furrow, inverted contour bank or a spreader bank that has as its object to reclaim denuded or eroded land; |
| (f) | a storm-water furrow, contour bank or waterway that has as its object to protect cultivated land against excessive soil loss; |
| (g) | a work that has as its object to reclaim drift sand by covering it with suitable material or establishing a cover crop thereon; or |
| (h) | a fence around an area where excessive soil loss due to erosion through water or wind occurs or which is vulnerable thereto, that has as its object to fence off that area in order to withdrawn it from cultivation or grazing with a view to the reclamation thereof. |
| (2) | A soil conservation work may for the purposes of this scheme be classified as a drainage work if the executive officer is satisfied that it is an open drainage furrow or underground drainage passage that has as its object to prevent, by means of the drainage and safe disposal of excess surface or underground water, the waterlogging or salination of land. |
| (3) | A soil conservation work may for the purposes of this scheme be classified as a veld utilisation work if the executive officer is satisfied that it is— |
| (a) | a camp fence that has as its object to separate the veld of a farm unit into morphological units or to divide such morphological units in order that such veld may be alternately grazed and rested according to the physiological requirements of the vegetation thereon; or |
| (b) | a stock watering system that has as its object to provide drinking water for animals when a particular morphological unit or a division thereof is grazed. |
| (4) | A soil conservation work may for the purposes of this scheme be classified as a drought relief work if the executive officer is satisfied that it is— |
| (a) | a storage facility for fodder; or |
| (b) | a feedlot or feed paddock equipped which feeding troughs and a stock watering system, that has as its object to create feeding facilities on a farm unit for animals that are to be withdrawn from the veld of that farm unit during a severe drought. |
