New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

MANAGEMENT OF WATERS AND WATERSIDE LANDS REGULATIONS--N.S.W. - REG 7

7 Directions by officers

(1) An officer of the Board may direct any person on or in any area of managed land or any wharf, building or other structure on any managed land or in any navigable waters:

(a) to move, or to remove any article, material or thing belonging to or controlled by such person, from a position which in the opinion of such officer obstructs or impedes the launching, removal or securing of a vessel, the shipment or unshipment of persons or goods, the carriage, stacking, storing or other handling of goods, the movement or passage of persons or vehicles, or the visibility of any beacon, light or other aid to navigation, or

(b) to remove or to make alterations to, any article, material or thing thereon or therein or to remove or extinguish any light thereon or therein, belonging to or controlled by such person which in the opinion of that officer may endanger navigation by its resemblance to or proximity to any beacon, light or other aid to navigation.

(2) A person who does not comply with a direction given by an officer of the Board under this Regulation shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.