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Malawi - Environmental, Climate and Sustainable Development Laws - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Disaster Preparedness and Relief (Floods) (Disaster Declaration) Notice, 2022 (G.No. 8 of 2022). -

Adoption: 2022-02-25 | MWI-2022-R-112669

Malawi - Environmental, Climate and Sustainable Development Laws - Law, Act

Environment Management Act, 1996 (No. 23 of 1996). -

Adoption: 1996-08-05 | MWI-1996-L-45482

Provides general environmental legislation, including the right for every person to a clean and healthy environment. To protect this right, establishes a National Council for the Environment which shall formulate policy governing the utilization of resources and environmental protection measures. Calls for the presentation of a National Environmental Action Plan. Allows the responsible minister to regulate, inter alia, the conservation of biological diversity, access to genetic materials, discharge of hazardous waste, and to declare environmental protection areas. Provides for environmental inspectors and sets forth penalites for offences against the Act.

Malawi - Environmental, Climate and Sustainable Development Laws - Law, Act

Disaster Preparedness and Relief Act (Chapter 33:05). -

Adoption: 1992-03-16 | MWI-1992-L-112668

An Act to make provision for the co-ordination and implementation of measures to alleviate effects to disasters, the establishment of the office of Commissioner for Disaster Preparedness and Relief, the establishment of a National Disaster Preparedness and Relief Committee of Malawi, and for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith.