Victorian Consolidated Legislation

National Parks Act 1975 - SECT 22

Zones in parks

22. Zones in parks



(1) The Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing a name as the
name of a zone that may be declared under this section as a zone within a
park.

(2) The Governor in Council may by proclamation published in the Government
Gazette declare that specified lands forming part of a park are a zone within
that park under a prescribed name, other than the name of "wilderness zone".

(3) Lands declared under subsection (2) to be a zone under a prescribed name
shall be controlled and managed subject to and in accordance with such
conditions as are, subject to this Act, prescribed for the control and
management of lands declared to be a zone under that name.

(4) If land has become a wilderness zone under subsection (4A) or has been
declared under subsection (5) to be a wilderness zone-

   (a)  the land is to be used and managed as if it were a wilderness park;
        and

   (b)  the provisions of this Act apply to the land as if it were a
        wilderness park.

(4A) The Minister, by notice published in the Government Gazette, may in
respect of each Part of Schedule Five appoint a day on which the land
described in that Part becomes a wilderness zone for the purposes of this Act.

(4B) Subsection (4A) does not affect or limit the Governor in Council's power
to declare land to be a wilderness zone.

(4C) The Minister must not appoint a day on which the land in Part 7 of
Schedule Five becomes a wilderness zone that is earlier than the date of
commencement of Part 2 of the National Parks (Wilderness) Act 1992.

(5) The Governor in Council, by proclamation published in the Government
Gazette may declare specified land forming part of a park to be a
wilderness zone if the land-

   (a)  together with the plant and animal community on the land, is in a
        state that has not been substantially modified by the influences of
        European settlement or is capable of being restored to such a state;
        and

   (b)  is of a sufficient size to make its maintenance in such a state
        feasible; and

   (c)  is capable of providing opportunities for solitude and appropriate
        self-reliant recreation.

(6) The Governor in Council may by proclamation published in the Government
Gazette declare that specified land forming a wilderness zone under subsection
(4A) or (5) or part of a wilderness zone cease to form that zone or part.

(7) A proclamation under subsection (5) or (6) does not have effect unless
approved by resolutions of both Houses of the Parliament.

(8) Notice of a resolution to approve a proclamation may be given in a House
of the Parliament on or before the eighteenth day on which that House sits
after the proclamation is made and the resolution must be passed on or before
the twelfth day upon which that House sits after notice of the resolution has
been given in that House but the power of either House to pass a resolution
approving the proclamation shall not be affected by the prorogation or
dissolution of the Parliament or of either House of the Parliament and for the
purpose of this section the calculation of days upon which a House has sat
shall be made as if there had been no such prorogation or dissolution.