The Minister of Environmental Affairs has, in terms of section 86(1) of the NEM:PAA, made amendments to the Regulations for the Proper Administration of Special Nature Reserves, National Parks and World Heritage Sites as promulgated in GNR 1061 in Government Gazette 28181 of 28 October 2005, as set out in the schedule to this Notice.
The amendments include, inter alia, an amendment to the penalty in respect of any conviction of an offence in terms of the aforesaid Regulations to a fine not exceeding R5 million or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 5 years in the case of the first conviction and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding R10 million or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years or in both instances to both a fine and a imprisonment.
