ALPINE RESORTS (MANAGEMENT) ACT 1997 - SECT 57 Regulations
ALPINE RESORTS (MANAGEMENT) ACT 1997 - SECT 57
Regulations(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for or with respect to—
(a) the protection, management and control of alpine resorts;
(b) prohibiting or regulating the entry into alpine resorts or parts of alpine resorts by persons, vehicles or vessels and the landing in resorts of helicopters or other aircraft and prescribing the periods during which persons, vehicles, vessels, helicopters or other aircraft may remain in alpine resorts;
(c) prohibiting or regulating the places in alpine resorts in which vehicles may be parked or left standing and the period during which they may be so parked or left standing;
(d) setting aside areas in alpine resorts for public use and—
(i) prohibiting or regulating the nature of the use of any such area;
(ii) prescribing measures to be taken for the safety of persons using any such area;
(e) prohibiting or regulating the bringing into or having or using firearms or other offensive weapons in alpine resorts;
(f) prohibiting or regulating the conduct of any events, sports, games or other similar activities in alpine resorts;
(g) prohibiting or regulating persons bringing animals into alpine resorts or keeping or having animals in alpine resorts;
(h) regulating the installation, operation and use of ski lifts in alpine resorts;
(i) prohibiting or regulating camping and the lighting of fires in alpine resorts and fixing fees for such camping;
S. 57(1)(j) substituted by No. 9/2022 s. 17.
(j) the imposition, collection and receipt of fees or other charges for or in respect of the following—
(i) entry into any alpine resort or any specified part of an alpine resort by any persons, animals, vehicles, boats or aircraft;
(ii) use of any improvements, services or facilities in any alpine resort (including carparks);
(iii) access and use of any land in any alpine resort;
S. 57(1)(k) substituted by No. 9/2022 s. 17.
(k) in relation to fees imposed under paragraph (j)—
(i) fixing annual fees or fees by reference to a shorter period; or
(ii) waiving or reducing any requirement to pay a fee; or
(iii) fixing fees by reference to a class of person or thing;
S. 57(1)(l)(m) repealed by No. 9/2022 s. 17.
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(n) the carriage and fixing of wheel chains in alpine resorts;
S. 57(1)(na) inserted by No. 24/2004 s. 12.
(na) the removal of vehicles (by means of lifting and carrying, or towing) that obstruct—
(i) roads in any resort; or
(ii) rights of way in any resort; or
(iii) any other places in any resort that are open to access, by vehicle, by the public or employees or agents of a Board—
to any other part of the resort, including—
(iv) the empowering of authorised officers to so remove vehicles or cause vehicles to be so removed; and
(v) the impounding of vehicles so removed until the payment of fees prescribed under this paragraph; and
(vi) the prescribing of fees to be paid, representing the reasonable costs of any such removal and any such impounding of vehicles;
(o) any other matter or thing required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary to be prescribed to give effect to this Act.
(2) The regulations made under this Act may—
(a) be of general or limited application; and
(b) differ according to differences in time, place or circumstances; and
(c) confer discretions or powers or impose duties on any specified person or specified class of persons; and
(d) impose specific minimum or maximum fees and provide for the waiver or reduction of fees; and
(e) impose penalties, not exceeding
20 penalty units, for contravention of the regulations.
Pt 5A (Heading and ss 57A– 57E) inserted by No. 81/2006 s. 61.
Part 5A—Mount Hotham Village Road Project
S. 57A inserted by No. 81/2006 s. 61.