DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS TRUST VERITAS MAKES EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE PROVISION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION, BUT CANNOT TAKE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION SUPPLIED. ACT To provide for the sustainable management natural resources and protection of the environment; the prevention of pollution and environmental degradation; the preparation of a National Environmental Plan and other plans for the management and protection of the environment; the establishment of an Environmental Management Agency and an Environment Fund; to amend references to intensive conservation areas and committees and associated matters in various Acts; to repeal the Natural Resources Act [Chapter 20:13], the Atmospheric Pollution Prevention Act [Chapter 20:03], the Hazardous Substances and Articles Act [Chapter 15:05] and the Noxious Weeds Act [Chapter 19:07]; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing. ENACTED by the President and Parliament of Zimbabwe. PART I PRELIMINARY 1 Short title and date of commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27]. (2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by the President by statutory instrument.3 2 Interpretation In this Act— “Agency” means the Environment Management Agency established by section nine; “appropriate authority”— (a) in relation to forest land, means the Forestry Commission established in terms of the Forest Act [Chapter 19:05]; (b) in relation to parks and wild life land, means the Department of National Parks and Wild Life Management established in terms of the Parks and Wild Life Act [Chapter 20:14]; 3 17th March, 2003, except for section 144 (repeal of three Acts) and paragraph 1 of Part III (reference to repeal of section 69 of Water Act). See Statutory Instrument 103 of 2003 dated 14 March, 2003. The date for the excepted provisions has been fixed as 7th April, 2006, by Statutory Instrument 74 of 2006. 7