Lists of Marine Species That Are Threatened Or Protected, Restricted Activities that Are Prohibited and Exemption From Restriction (Notice No. 476 of 2017).

These Regulations, made under the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act, 2004, prohibit restricted activities in terms of section 57(2) (in the Table) and exempt, in terms of section 57(4)(a), persons from the restriction contemplated in section 57(1). Section 57 concerns restricted activities involving listed threatened or protected species. The Table contains the following information— (i) Column 1 – scientific and common names of listed threatened or protected marine species; (ii) Column 2 – specific restricted activities relating to specific listed marine species, prohibited in terms of section 57(2) of the Biodiversity Act; and (iii) Column 3 – specific restricted activities relating to specific listed marine species, exempt in terms of section 57(4) of the Biodiversity Act. If the carrying out of a restricted activity involving a listed threatened or protected marine species is generally exempt in terms of this notice, but such restricted activity is prohibited in certain circumstances in terms of the Regulations pertaining to listed threatened or protected marine species and promulgated in terms of section 97 of the Biodiversity Act (Marine TOPS Regulations,) such prohibition in terms of the Marine TOPS Regulations shall nevertheless remain valid.