National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act, 2008
1 December 2009
Download the National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act (Current as at 21 August 2025)
Amendments to this Act
- National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Act No. 2 of 2022 (date of commencement for certain sections proclaimed to be 30 June 2023)
- National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Amendment Act 36 of 2014 (came into operation on 1 May 2015)
Draft Amendments to this Act
- National Environmental Management Laws Draft Amendment Bill, 2015
- National Environmental Management Laws Amendment Bill, 2017; see also the latest version of this Bill, adopted by the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs on 19 June 2018
Regulations
- Appeal Regulations (8 July 2016)
- Dumping at Sea Regulations (21 July 2017)
- Reclamation of land from coastal waters regulations (9 March 2018)
- Coastal Waters Discharge Permit Regulations (15 March 2019)
Estuarine Management
- National Estuarine Management Protocol (10 May 2013)
- Nahoon Estuarine Management Plan (19 December 2016)
Coastal Management Programmes
- Eastern Cape Coastal Management Programme (26 March 2014)
- National Coastal Management Programme (29 May 2014)
- Western Cape Coastal Management Programme (adopted on 27 May 2016)
Coastal Management Lines
- Nelson Mandela Bay (19 December 2016)
- National guideline towards the establishment of coastal management lines (2018) (the guideline was not published in terms of the Act, but rather as a general guideline)
Public launch sites in the coastal zone
- Management of public launch sites in the coastal zone (27 June 2014)
- Public Launch Sites in the Eastern Cape (19 December 2016)
General Notices
- Control of the use of vehicles in the coastal zone (27 June 2014)
Draft Regulations and Notices
- Draft Dumping at Sea Regulations
- Draft Research Regulations
- Draft Appeal Regulations
- Draft Durban Bay and Orange River Mouth Estuarine Management Plans (30 October 2015)
- Draft Western Cape Coastal Management Plan (15 January 2016)
- Notice of intention to adopt the Nelson Mandela Bay Coastal Management Lines (1 February 2016) (too big to upload – contact casewatch at cer.org.za for a copy)
- Draft Nahoon River Coastal Management Plan (1 February 2016) (too big to upload – contact casewatch at cer.org.za for a copy)
- Call for comments on the Draft Breede River Estuarine Management Plan (20 July 2016) (Extension of time to submit comments – 19 August 2016)
- Draft Reclamation of Land from Coastal Waters Regulations (24 February 2017)
- Draft Coastal Waters Discharge Permit Regulations (10 March 2017)
- Draft Buffels and Swartlintjies Estuarine Management Plans (19 May 2017)
- Draft Buffalo River Estuarine Management Plan (16 February 2018)
- Draft KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Management Programme (10 May 2017); see also the call for comments as well as an I&AP registration form
- Draft Amthole District Coastal Management Programme (11 February 2019); see also the call for comments
- Draft OR Tambo District Coastal Management Programme (11 February 2019); see also the call for comments
- Draft Seekoei Estuarine Management Plan (11 February 2019); see also the call for comments; the Situation Assessment Report, the Mouth Management Plan and the Stakeholders Report
- Draft South African Water Quality Guidelines for Marine Coastal Waters – Natural Environment and Mariculture Use (15 March 2019)
- Draft general discharge authorisation in terms of section 69(2) (23 August 2019)
- Draft uMhlatuze / Richards Bay Estuarine Management Plan (1 November 2019)
- Draft Sarah Baartman District Municipality Coastal Management Programme (15 November 2019)