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When Can You Use National Environmental Management Act to Make a Complaint?
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When Can You Use National Environmental Management Act to Make a Complaint?
NEMA says you can take legal action to enforce any environmental law or a principle of NEMA:
- To protect your own interest
- To protect someone else’s interests who cannot do so
- On behalf of a group of people whose interests are affected
- If the legal action is in the public interest
- If the legal action is in the interests of protecting the environment
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