S.L. 549.59 Art. 32Air Quality Management Area.

(1) The Minister shall, upon the competent authority’s advice, declare an Air Quality Management Area wherever:

(a) the limit values, target values, long term objectives or the national exposure reduction target in Schedule 7, are not being achieved, keeping in mind the dates by when the limit values, target values, long term objectives or the national exposure reduction target are to be achieved;

(b) it is forecasted, through the use of predictive modelling software that the limit values, target values, long term objectives or the national exposure reduction target in Schedule 7, will be exceeded.

(2) The Air Quality Management area shall be declared by the issuing of an Air Quality Management Order in terms of the details in Schedule 13. The Air Quality Management Order shall be published in the Gazette.

(3) An order made under sub-regulation (2) may be revoked if as a result of a subsequent air quality assessment it is shown that the limit values, target values, long term objectives and the national exposure reduction target in Schedule 7 are being achieved in a location which had been previously designated as an Air Quality Management Area under sub-regulation (1).