Older Persons Act, 2006
R 385
National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998)Regulations in Terms of Chapter 5 of the National Environmental Management Act, 1998Chapter 3 : Applications for Environmental AuthorisationsPart 3 : Applications subject to scoping and environmental impact assessment35. Consideration of environmental impact assessment reports |
| 1) | The competent authority must, within 60 days of receipt of an environmental impact assessment report, in writing— |
| a) | accept the report; |
| b) | notify the applicant that the report has been referred for specialist review in terms of section 24I of the Act ; |
| c) | request the applicant to make such amendments to the report as the competent authority may require for acceptance of the environmental impact assessment report; or |
| d) | reject the report if it does not comply with regulation 32(2) in a material respect. |
| 2) |
| a) | An environmental impact assessment report that is rejected in terms of subregulation (1)(d) may be amended and resubmitted by the EAP. |
| b) | On receipt of the amended report, the competent authority must reconsider the report in accordance with subregulation (1). |
