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Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (Act No. 28 of 2002)

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Amendment Regulations to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Regulations, 2020

Chapter 2 : Mineral and Petroleum, Social and Environmental Regulations

Part 1 : Mineral and Petroleum Regulation

2. Manner of lodging application and plan

 

(1) An application for any permission, right or permit made in terms of the Act must be lodged by submitting an appropriate compatible electronic completed form contained in Annexure I, together with the prescribed annexures in compatible electronic format with the Regional Manager in whose region the land, area, blocks or block is situated or to the designated agency, as the case may be –
(a) by hand;
(b) registered post; or
(c) electronically on the Department’s official website address, Petroleum Agency of South Africa's official website, or the relevant address specified in the appropriate form.

[Regulation 2(1) substituted by section 2 of Notice No. R. 2243, GG46673, dated 6 July 2022]

 

(2) An application contemplated in subregulation (1) must be accompanied by a plan of the land to which the application relates, in accordance with generally accepted standards, signed and dated by the applicant and must contain—
(a) the co-ordinates and spheroid (Clarke 1880/Cape Datum, WGS84/WGS84, WGS94/Hartebeesthoek94) of the land to which the application relates;
(b) the north point;
(c) the scale to which the plan has been drawn;
(d) the location and where applicable, the name and number of the land to which the application relates;
(e) the extent of the land to which the application relates;
(f) the boundaries of the land to which the application relates;
(g) surface structures and registered servitudes where applicable; and
(h) the topography of the land to which the application relates.

 

(3) In the case of an application for a mining permit in terms of section 27 of the Act, the applicant may be exempted from the requirements in subregulation (2)(a) and (2)(h) upon lodgement of such application.