National Parks and Reserved Land Amendment Regulations 2006

National Parks and Reserved Land Amendment Regulations 2006

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002 .

W. J. E. COX

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

PAULA WRIEDT

Minister for Tourism, Arts and the Environment

1.   Short title

These regulations may be cited as the National Parks and Reserved Land Amendment Regulations 2006 .

2.   Commencement

These regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette.

3.   Principal Regulations

In these regulations, the National Parks and Reserved Land Regulations 1999 are referred to as the Principal Regulations.

4.    Regulation 23B inserted

After regulation 23A of the Principal Regulations , the following regulation is inserted in Part 3:

23B.   Offence to use facility or convenience without paying

(1)  This regulation applies if the managing authority for any reserved land charges a fee for the use of a facility or convenience that the managing authority provides and maintains on that reserved land.

(2)  A person who uses the facility or convenience without paying the fee, within the time and in the manner required by the managing authority, is guilty of an offence.

Penalty:  Fine not exceeding 20 penalty units.

(3)  In subregulations (1) and (2)  –

facility includes a walking track and a camping site.

5.    Schedule 1 amended (Prescribed offences in relation to which an infringement notice may be issued)

Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting items 21 , 22 , 23 and 24 and substituting:

21.

regulation 23(2)

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22.

regulation 23(3)

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22A.

regulation 23B(2)

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23.

regulation 24(3)

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24.

regulation 24(4)

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Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 10 May 2006

These regulations are administered in the Department of Tourism, Arts and the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

(a) providing that it is an offence for a person to use a facility or convenience on reserved land without payment if the managing authority charges for such use; and

(b) prescribing that offence as one for which an infringement notice may be issued and prescribing the fine that is payable for that offence; and

(c) increasing the fines that are payable for certain other infringement notice offences under those regulations.