Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

NATURE CONSERVATION ACT 1980 - SECT 67

    (1)     A person shall not, in a reserved area, without the consent in writing of the conservator—

        (a)     drive or park a motor vehicle except on a road or track or in a part of the reserved area that is designated to be an area in which the driving or parking of motor vehicles is permitted; or

        (b)     moor a vessel except in a part of the reserved area that is designated to be an area in which the mooring of vessels is permitted; or

        (c)     camp except in a part of the reserved area that is designated to be an area in which camping is permitted; or

        (d)     erect a building, booth, stall, post, sign or other structure; or

        (e)     supply goods or services; or

        (f)     plant a plant; or

        (g)     deposit garden waste, soil or landscaping material that contains plant material capable of propagating.

Maximum penalty: 30 penalty units.

    (2)     A person shall not, in a reserved area, without the consent in writing of the conservator, use or possess—

        (a)     a firearm of any kind; or

        (b)     a spear, spear gun, bow or arrow; or

        (c)     a trap, net, snare or other device designed, or capable of use, for the taking or capturing of animals; or

        (d)     any substance that is capable of being used for the taking or capturing of animals.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (3)     A person shall not, in a reserved area, without the consent in writing of the conservator—

        (a)     damage or destroy a natural or constructed structure or feature; or

        (b)     damage or destroy a site, or remove an object, of historical, archaeological, palaeontological or geological interest.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

    (4)     For the purposes of subsection (1) (a), driving or parking a motor vehicle is not to be taken to be permitted on or adjacent to a road to which access is barred by a gate or a barrier.

    (5)     The conservator shall not give consent under subsection (1) in respect of any of the matters referred to in subsection (1) (d) or (e) where the reserved area is, or forms part of, a wilderness area.

    (6)     Subsection (2) does not apply to the use or possession of a firearm by a police officer in the course of his or her duties as a police officer.