Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The Minister may, by notice published in a daily newspaper, declare a part of a lake to be a closed area for the period stated in the notice.
(2) The Minister may also, by the notice, authorise an entity to conduct a stated event in the closed area during the stated period.
Note Entity includes an unincorporated body, see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1.
(3) A person commits an offence if—
(a) the person enters the closed area during the period stated in the notice; and
(b) if subsection (2) applies—the entry is not authorised by the entity authorised by the notice.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.
(4) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.
(5) In this section:
"event" means a regatta, exhibition, sporting contest or other display.