36. Amendment of section 42 of the principal enactment

‘ “coastal access” means the right of the public, to approach, enter or use an approach to enter into, or to go along a coastal margin in a physical and visual sense and also includes access along the shoreline, usually a strip of land parallel to the waters edge or path or trail which runs parallel to or along, the shoreline, path or trail which connects the nearest public roadway with a shoreline destination along a reasonable direct route

“Offences under the Act to be cognisable offences.

Immunity from suit.

or access to the shoreline from a public road to the Mean High Water Level ;

“coastal resource” includes all living and non-living resources found within the Coastal

Zone ;

“management” means the managing of renewable and non-renewable coastal resources, either separately or in an integrated fashion but excluding fisheries and aquatic resources which fall within the provisions of the

Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Act, No. 2

of 1996 ;”;

by the substitution for the words “any other body of water so connected to the sea;” of the words “any other body of water so connected to the sea, and shall also include the area lying within a further extended limit of one hundred metres inland from the Zero Mean Sea Level along the periphery ;”;

“initial environmental examination report” means a written report wherein possible impacts of the development activity on the environment shall be assessed with a view to determining whether the impacts are significant and therefore requires the preparation of an environmental impact assessment report.

Such report shall contain all details and descriptions, data maps, designs and other information which is relevant to the development activity ;”;

‘ “sustainability” is the alternative to resource depletion caused by excessive exploitation for short term profit and implies the need for the wise use and careful management of individual species and communities, together with the habitats and ecosystems on which they depend, so that their current or potential use to people is not impaired’; and

‘ “water body” includes rivers and any other body of water so connected to the sea, marshes, mudflats, lagoons and mangrove swamps ;’.