Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION REGULATIONS 2000 - REG 12.24

         (1)   A person must not capture an image or record a sound in or of a Commonwealth reserve in contravention of a prohibition or restriction imposed by the Director under subregulation (3).

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

         (2)   If the reserve is a jointly managed reserve, subregulation (1) does not apply to a member or officer of a land council for indigenous people's land, in the part of the reserve where the image is captured or the sound is recorded, who is performing his or her duties as a member or officer.

         (3)   For subregulation (1), the Director may prohibit or restrict the capturing of images or recording of sounds:

                (a)    generally or to a class of persons; and

               (b)    at all times, at specified times or for a specified period; and

                (c)    in all or part of the reserve.

         (4)   Notice of a prohibition or restriction must be published.

         (5)   The Director, a ranger or a warden may, at any time, require a person who has captured an image or recorded a sound in contravention of subregulation (1) to surrender the following:

                (a)    all copies and forms of the image or sound recording;

               (b)    any device or means used to capture the image or record the sound.