Section 4: Licence to abstract ground water and prohibition of pollution
consolidated text (as at 2009). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
4. Licence to abstract ground water and prohibition of pollution
(1) Subject to this Act, no person shall—
(a) abstract, divert, obstruct, measure or use any ground water; or
(b) construct or erect any works in or over any ground water,
unless he has obtained a licence under this Act authorising him to do so.
(2) (a) Where any person licensed under this Act, by any physical,
chemical or biological means or process, so alters the composition or quality
of ground water that it is likely to cause injury to any person, animal or plant
using such water, he shall commit an offence.
(b) Where an offence is committed under paragraph (a), the Authority
may, with the approval of the Minister, suspend or revoke the licence, without prejudice to any other proceeding that may be instituted against the
holder of the licence.
(3) A ground water licence shall be in such form as the Minister may
determine.
[S. 4 amended by Act 32 of 1989.]