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106 of 1998
The repealed National Parks Amendment Act 106 of 1998 intended:
- to amend the National Parks Act, 1976, so as:
- to allow the board of South African National Parks to accept and receive any land or mineral rights in respect of land donated or bequeathed to that board for the purposes of a national park, and to exchange land or mineral rights in respect of land for other land that may be required for those purposes;
- to extend the activities that may be carried out within a national park by private persons with that board's authorization;
- to impose a prohibition on the possession, within a national park, of any animal or carcass or part thereof, and to provide that contravention of that prohibition will be an offence;
- to regulate the delegation or assignment by that board of the powers, duties and functions conferred or imposed on it by or in terms of that Act;
- to empower the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to transfer the powers, duties and functions conferred or imposed on that board with regard to the Knysna National Lake Area by section 30C of that Act, to an authority under the government of the Province of the Western Cape, or another authority in that province, as designated by the Premier of that province;
- to repeal certain unconstitutional provisions of that Act;
- to extend the application of the National Parks Act, 1976, to all those areas in the national territory where it was not of force and did not apply previously; and
- to provide for incidental matters.
Commencement
- 27 November 1998
- 31 August 1999, Section 11(1) (Gazette 20404 of 31 August 1999)
