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MARINE POLLUTION: INPUT SOUGHT ON THREE MISSING SETS OF DRAFT REGULATIONS
- 25 September 2026
- Transport
- SA Legal Academy
Please note: On 28 September 2026, two sets of draft regulations were posted on the SAMSA website. Links to these documents are provided at the end of this report. Unfortunately, at the time of writing the link to the third set of proposals was faulty. Neither is any information available on the deadline for comments and to whom they should be sent. SAMSA has been notified. 2) On 8 October 2025, the faulty link yet to be replaced. As a result, the draft regulations on sewage pollution at sea are still not available. Neither is there any information on the deadline for input and to whom it should be sent. Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has been notified, several emails to SAMSA having been ignored. 3) On 15 October 2026, the draft regulations on sewage pollution at sea finally became available – nearly three weeks into a commentrary period that, at the time of writing, had yet to be clarified.
The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) has gazetted notices calling for input on three sets of marine pollution-related draft regulations – referring stakeholders to their website for the documents concerned. However, at the time of writing they had yet to be published. The apparent disconnect between Government Gazette notices and the SAMSA website has been a recurring problem for several years. Once again, no commentary deadline has been set.
This notwithstanding, according to the notices themselves the proposed new regulations separately focus on:
- preventing sewage pollution from ships (notice)
- marine oil pollution ‘preparedness, response and cooperation’ (notice), and
- maritime pollution preparedness and response fund administration (notice)
As soon as the documents become available, links will be added to this report.
- draft regulations on oil pollution
- draft regulations on fund administration
- draft regulations on sewage spills
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