National Environment Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008 (Act No. 24 of 2008)

Chapter 2 : Coastal Zone

Purchase

(1)	The Minister, acting with the concurrence of the Minister of Land Affairs, may acquire private land for the purpose of declaring that land as coastal public property, by—

(a)	purchasing the land;

(b)	exchanging the land for other land; or

(c)	if no agreement is reached with the owner, by expropriating the land in accordance with the Expropriation Act, 1975 (Act No. 63 of 1975).

(2)	Land may be acquired in terms of this section only if it is being expropriated for a purpose set out in section 8(1).