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Various pieces of legislation impact on Integrated Fire Management and set out mandates for different stakeholders. This legislation stipulates that various government departments, spheres of government, and the private sector are mandated to deal with aspects of Integrated Fire Management responsibilities. In many cases these mandates overlap, in others there is a lack of clarity. While the inconsistencies and overlaps can be easily addressed through cooperative governance agreements and structures, it makes for a complex institutional context.
The following pieces of legislation have been identified as having a direct bearing on Integrated Fire Management in South Africa:
Local Government: Municipal Structures Act (Act 117 of 1998);
Conservation of Agricultural Resources Act (Act 43 of 1983);
National Environmental Management Act (“NEMA”) (Act 107 of 1998);
National Environmental Management: Air Quality Management Act (Act 39 of 2004);
National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act (Act 10 of 2004);
National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Act (Act 57 of 2003);
National Environmental Management: Protected Areas Amendment Act (Act 15 of 2009);
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