NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: AIR QUALITY ACT: REGULATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING AND ENFORCING PRIORITY AREA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANS 

Title: National Environmental Management: Air Quality Management Act 39 of 2004 (“NEMAQA”): Regulations for Implementing and Enforcing Priority Area Air Quality Management Plans 

Gazette reference: GN 5153 in GG 51120 of 26 August 2024 

Commencement date: 26 August 2024 

On 26 August 2024, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, under section 20 of the NEMAQA made the Regulations for implementing and enforcing priority area air quality management plans. 

The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for the implementation and enforcement of a priority area air quality management plan, approved and published in terms of sections 19(1)(b) and 19(5) of the NEMAQA. 

The Vaal Triangle Priority Area AQMP Implementation Regulations, 2009, published under GNR 614 of 29 May 2009, have no been repealed.