Legal & Regulatory Frameworks
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Browse the laws, regulations and legal instruments shaping infrastructure investment and delivery across InfraLex markets.
Environment Law
Saudi Arabia · Law / Act
Environmental / PermittingIn Force
The Environment Law establishes Saudi Arabia's framework for environmental protection, licensing, compliance, monitoring, restoration and enforcement. It alloca…
Environmental Impact Assessment Act
Nigeria · Law / Act
Environmental / PermittingIn Force
Federal framework statute mandating environmental impact assessment for major public and private projects, including infrastructure and energy projects.
Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014
South Africa · Regulation
Environmental / PermittingAmended
Prescribes the procedural pathways for seeking environmental authorisation under NEMA: appointment/independence of the environmental assessment practitioner, pu…
Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act
Kenya · Law / Act
Environmental / PermittingAmended
EMCA is Kenya's overarching environmental framework statute. It establishes environmental institutions and principles, environmental impact assessment and audit…
Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016
United Kingdom · Regulation
Environmental / PermittingIn Force
Consolidated environmental permitting regime for England and Wales (waste, water discharge, industrial emissions and related activities), directly relevant to t…
Exchange Control Regulations, 1961
South Africa · Regulation
Foreign Exchange / Capital ControlsAmended
An independently operative implementing instrument translating the parent Currency and Exchanges Act's regulation-making power into restrictions, consent requir…
Excise Duty Act, 2015
Kenya · Law / Act
TaxAmended
Kenya's excise duty statute. Current, amended; reviewed as at 6 September 2026, including applicable 2026 amendments verified as effective by that date.
Executive By-Law No. 11 of 2005 for the Environment Protection Law
Qatar · Rules / Bylaws
Environmental / PermittingIn Force
Implements Law No. 30 of 2002, setting the operative Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) procedure and the conditions for environmental licensing/operating pe…
Executive Regulations for Environmental Permits for the Establishment and Operation of Activities
Saudi Arabia · Regulation
Environmental / PermittingAmended
The Regulations provide the operative environmental-permitting framework for establishing and operating activities. They classify activities by environmental im…
Expropriation Act 63 of 1975
South Africa · Law / Act
Land / Real Estate / Land UseIn Force
The current operative predecessor expropriation framework at the research cut-off: notices, vesting, possession, compensation, mortgaged-property treatment, wit…
