Maintenance Act, 1998
R 385
"protected environment"
means—
(a) | an area declared, or regarded as having been declared, in terms of section 28 as a protected environment; |
(b) | an area which before or after the commencement of this Act was or is declared or designated in terms of provincial legislation for a purpose for which that area could in terms of section 28(2) be declared as a protected environment; or |
(c) | an area which was a lake area in terms of the Lake Areas Development Act, 1975 (Act No. 39 of 1975), immediately before the repeal of that Act by section 90(1) of this Act, |
and includes an area declared in terms of section 28(1) as part of an area referred to in paragraph (a) [or], (b) or (c) above;
[Definition substituted by section 1(e) of Act No. 31 of 2004]