NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT:
BIODIVERSITY ACT 10 OF 2004 ; ALIEN AND INVASIVE SPECIES REGULATIONS, 2014
Published under Government Notice R598 in Government Gazette 37885 of 1 August 2014.

CATEGORIES OF LISTED INVASIVE SPECIES

• Species which must be combatted or eradicated.
• Species which must be controlled.
• Species which require a permit.

Section 29.  Sale or transfer of alien and listed invasive species

1. If a permit-holder sells a specimen of an alien or listed invasive species, or sells the property on which a specimen of an alien or listed invasive species is under the permit-holder’s control, the new owner of such specimen or such property must apply for a permit in terms of Chapter 7 of the Act.
2. The new permit-holder contemplated in sub-regulation (1) will be subject to the same conditions as the permit-holder who has sold the specimen of an alien or listed invasive species, or the property on which a specimen of an alien or listed invasive species occurs, unless specific circumstances require all such permit conditions to be revised, in which case full reasons must be giving in writing by the issuing authority.
3. The seller of any immovable property must, prior to the conclusion of the relevant sale agreement, notify the purchaser of that property in writing of the presence of listed invasive species on that property

INVASIVE SPECIES CLAUSE:
“The Seller hereby records that to the Seller’s best knowledge and belief there are no Listed Invasive Species mentioned in terms of the Regulations to the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act 10 of 2004 upon the Property.  It is however recorded that as the Seller is not sufficiently qualified to identify such Species that the Purchaser accepts the risk inherent in purchasing the Property with any Listed Invasive Species which might be thereon.”