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

Chapter 6 : Bioprospecting, Access and Benefit-Sharing

85. Establishment of Bioprospecting Trust Fund

 

(1) A Bioprospecting Trust Fund is established into which all moneys arising from benefit-sharing agreements and material transfer agreements, and due to stakeholders, must be paid, and from which all payments to, or for the benefit of, stakeholders must be made.

 

(2) All money paid into the bioprospecting trust fund is trust money within the meaning of section 13(1)(f)(ii) of the Public Finance Management Act.

 

(3) The Director-General
(a) must manage the Fund in the prescribed manner or may appoint a trustee in terms of the Trust Property Control Act, 1988 (Act No. 57 of 1988), to administer the fund on the Director-General‘s behalf in the prescribed manner and under such terms as the Director-General may consider necessary; and

[Section 85(3)(a) substituted by section 41 of Act No. 14 of 2009];

(b) is accountable for the money in the Fund in terms of the Public Finance Management Act.

 

[Section 85 commenced 1 January 2006 (Proclamation No. R. 47, Gazette No. 26887)]