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Tuesday, 29 October 2013] 4915The Portfolio Committee further notes that after having consideredthe subject of the Amendment Bill, decided to support the followingamendments:1. Clause 2 will amend section 13 of the Act, to empower theMinister to establish the National Air Quality AdvisoryCommittee to advise him or her on any air quality relatedmatter. The clause will also allow the Minister to prescribe byregulation any other matter related to the Advisory Committee.2. Clause 3 inserts a new section 22A in the Act, to provide forthe consequences of unlawfully conducting a listed airemission activity without the necessary authorisation. Thisclause will address three scenarios, namely, to provide forthose activities related to air quality emissions: whereatmospheric emissions take place without an EnvironmentalImpact Assessment (EIA), which must be addressed throughsection 24G of the National Environmental Management Act,1998 (NEMA); where those activities operated without thenecessary air quality licence under the Atmospheric PollutionPrevention Act, 1965 (APPA) which must be addressedthrough section 22A; and where those activities operated hadan EIA environmental authorisation granted but no air qualitylicence was issued, which must be addressed through section22A. This clause, which emulates section 24G of the NEMA,sets out the process and the information required for such anapplication. The clause also provides the licensing authoritywith various options when considering such an application.The clause also provides for the payment of an administrativefine not exceeding five million rand before the processing ofthe application. Furthermore, the submission of such anapplication does not indemnify the person from criminalprosecution.ANNOUNCEMENTS, TABLINGS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS NO 147─2013