(c) in relation to Communal Land or resettlement land, means the rural district council within whose area the land is situated, where the Minister has assigned environmental management functions to that council in terms of section one hundred and thirty-three; (d) in relation to water pollution, means the person whom the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, has specified as the appropriate authority for the waters concerned or, if no person has been so specified, the appropriate authority for the land riparian to those waters; (e) in relation to alienated land, means⎯ (i) the occupier of the land; or (ii) if the land has no occupier, the user of the land; or (iii) if the land has neither an occupier nor a user, the owner of the land; and includes any person appointed by the occupier, user or owner, as the case may be, to be the appropriate authority for the land; “biological diversity” means biological diversity as defined in the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity adopted in 1992; “Board” means the Environment Management Board established by section eleven; “construct” includes to do, maintain, repair, carry out, reconstruct or alter; "Council" means the National Environment Council established by section seven; “developer” means any person who proposes or undertakes to implement a project; “Director-General” means the Director-General of the Agency; “dust” means any solid matter in a fine or disintegrated form which is capable of being dispersed or being suspended in the atmosphere; “effluent” means waste water or other fluid originating from domestic, agricultural or industrial activity, whether the water or fluid is treated or untreated and whether it is discharged directly or indirectly into the environment; “emission” means gas, fumes, smoke, dust or odour originating from domestic, agricultural or industrial activity, vehicles, engines or processes; “environment” means— (a) the natural and man made resources physical resources, both biotic and abiotic, occurring in the lithosphere and atmosphere, water, soil, minerals and living organisms, whether indigenous or exotic and the interaction between them; (b) ecosystems, habitats, spatial surroundings or other constituent parts, whether natural or modified or constructed by people and communities, including urbanised areas, agricultural areas, rural landscapes, and places of cultural significance; (c) the economic, social, cultural or aesthetic conditions and qualities that contribute to the value of the matters set out in paragraphs (a) and (b); “environmental audit” means the systematic documentation and periodic objective evaluation of the protection and management of the environment; “environment committee” means an environment committee of a rural district council appointed in terms of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13]; 8