Hazardous Substances Act 15 of 1973
4 April 1973
Hazardous Substances Act, 1973 (Act No. 15 of 1973)
Regulations
- Hazardous Substances Regulations (25 March 1977)
- Regulations to provide for the institution of an advisory committee on electronic products (20 July 1979)
- Regulations relating to Group III Hazardous Substances (14 April 1989)
- Regulations relating to Group IV Hazardous Substances (1 March 1993)
- Regulations regarding the declaration as carbon tetrachloride as a Group I Category A Substance (3 November 1995)
- Regulations relating to the aerial application of agricultural remedies (22 December 1995)
- Regulations relating to the control over fluoroacetic acid (mono), its salts and derivatives (14 November 1997)
- Regulations relating to the control of the sale of cyanide for use in a cyanide poison-firing apparatus (14 November 1995)
Declaration of Hazardous Substances
- Group I (25 March 1977)
- Leaded paint (31 July 2010)
- Group II (12 August 1994)
- Group III (1 July 1991)
Exemptions
- Exemptions and exclusions relating to Group IV Hazardous Substances (1 March 1993)
- Exemption of any person who has received a written approval from the head of the health authority of the concerned province to load cyanide cartridges for use in a poison firing apparatus, from the provisions of section 3(1)(a) of the Act (14 November 1997)
- Exemption of a laboratory, a teaching institution, an industry, a Government institution, a provincial authority or a provincial institution who imports fluoroacetic acid (mono), its salts and derivatives for use in the Republic which is not sealed in a poison collar, from the provisions of section 3(1)(a) of the Act (14 November 1997)
Draft Declarations of Hazardous Substances
- Group I Category B Substances (23 September 2016)
- Group I Category A Substances (14 October 2016)
- Group II Substances (14 October 2016)
- Group II Substances (21 October 2016)
- Group I Category A Substances (21 October 2016)