Section 84: Compliance monitoring
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
84. Compliance monitoring
(1) The Director may, after consultation with the Committee, in relation
to any activity, enterprise, or undertaking, carry out, cause to be carried out,
or arrange for monitoring of environmental quality, and the nature, extent
and effects of discharges of pollutants, as the Director may consider necessary for ensuring compliance with an environmental law.
(2) The Director may, require a person responsible for an activity, enterprise, or undertaking from which there is a discharge of a pollutant into the
environment, to—
(a) carry out such monitoring of the nature, extent and effect of the
discharge and of the quality of any environmental medium likely
to be affected by the discharge; and
(b) keep and supply to him records of the monitoring and provide
such other information as the Director considers necessary.
(3) Any person who fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (2) shall commit an offence.
[S. 84 amended by s. 28 of Act 6 of 2008 w.e.f. 15 July 2008.]