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National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No. 10 of 2004)

Chapter 4 : Threatened or Protected Ecosystems and Species

Part 3 : Trade in listed threatened or protected species

62. Annual non-detriment findings

 

(1) The Minister must, by notice in the Gazette, publish any non-detriment findings made by the scientific authority on trade in specimens of listed threatened or protected species and species to which an international agreement regulating international trade applies, in accordance with the requirements of the international agreement regulating international trade that are binding on the Republic.

 

(2) Any interim findings of the scientific authority must be published in the Gazette by the Minister for public information within 30 days after the finding has been made.

 

(3) Before publishing, amending or repealing a notice in terms of subsection (1), the Minister must publish any non-detriment findings made by the scientific authority in the Gazette, inviting members of the public to submit to the scientific authority, within 30 days of publication in the Gazette, written scientific information relating to the non-detriment findings.

 

[Section 62 substituted by section 10 of Act No. 14 of 2013]