Maintenance Act, 1998
R 385
"bioprospecting"
in relation to indigenous biological resources, means any research on, or development or application of, indigenous biological resources for commercial or industrial exploitation, and includes—
| (a) | the systematic search, collection or gathering of such resources or making extractions from such resources for purposes of such research, development or application; |
| (b) | the utilisation for purposes of such research or development of any information regarding any traditional uses of indigenous biological resources by indigenous communities; |
| (c) | research on, or the application, development or modification of, any such traditional uses, for commercial or industrial exploitation; or |
| (d) | the trading in and exporting of indigenous biological resources in order to develop and produce products, such as drugs, industrial enzymes, food flavours, fragrances, cosmetics, emulsifiers, oleoresins, colours, extracts and essential oils; |
[Paragraph (d) inserted by section 1(b) of Act No. 14 of 2013]
[Definition amended by section 1(b) of Act No. 14 of 2013]
