Queensland Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1959 - SECT 34H

(1) The chief executive may authorise the erection or display in, or at or near the entrances to, a State forest of a notice or notices indicating that the State forest, or the specified part of the State forest, is, during the specified period or periods, a self-registration camping area.

(2) A self-registration camping notice--

(a) must, in relation to the use of camping forms, indicate, in general terms, the procedures to be followed by persons proposing to camp in the self-registration camping area; and

(b) must, if applicable, specify the maximum number of persons authorised to camp in the self-registration camping area under the authority of a single permit; and

(c) must specify the maximum period for which camping is authorised in the self-registration camping area; and

(d) must specify any requirements relating to--

(i) the maximum number of persons authorised to camp on; or

(ii) the maximum number of permits that may apply in relation to;

a single camp site in the self-registration camping area; and

(e) must specify the amount of the camping fee prescribed by the regulations in relation to camping in the self-registration camping area; and

(f) must indicate the effects of camping in a State forest without a permit; and

(g) may contain such other information relating to camping in the self-registration camping area as the chief executive considers appropriate.

(3) The chief executive is to make available in a self-registration camping area in a prominent position and at a place that is readily accessible, and take reasonable steps to ensure that there continues to be so available--

(a) forms for use in relation to self-registration camping areas; and

(b) a sealed, secure container for the deposit of--

(i) the appropriate completed parts of camping forms; and

(ii) camping fees.

(4) A form for use in relation to a self-registration camping area--

(a) is to be in a form approved by the chief executive; and

(b) is to comprise 2 detachable parts, one part being an envelope that is designated as the part required to be dealt with in the manner referred to in section 35A(1)(b) and the other part being designated as the part required to be dealt with in the manner referred to in section 73A; and

(c) must indicate the procedures to be followed by a person in relation to the use of the form; and

(d) must contain on the part of the form comprising the envelope a section for use for credit card payments of camping fees; and

(e) may contain such other information relating to--

(i) the use of the form; or

(ii) camping in a self-registration camping area;

as the chief executive considers appropriate.