ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ACT 1972 - SECT 26

ABORIGINAL HERITAGE ACT 1972 - SECT 26

26 .         Regulations as to protected areas

        (1)         In relation to a protected area the Governor may make regulations prohibiting, or imposing conditions or restrictions upon —

            (a)         persons entering or remaining within the area;

            (b)         the use of vehicles, explosives, instruments, tools, and equipment of any kind specified, or generally;

            (c)         damage or destruction to vegetation, the working of the land, or the disturbance of the surface or the subsoil within the area;

            (d)         livestock entering or remaining within an area where the Registrar has taken reasonable measures to protect the area from damage by livestock,

                and may make all such other regulations as may in his opinion be required or permitted by this Act for ensuring that the places and objects to which this Act applies, and the immediate environment necessary to maintain the nature and substance of the significance attached thereto, are protected from damage, disturbance or adverse influence.

        (2)         A person who contravenes any provision of a regulation made pursuant to subsection (1) commits an offence against this Act, and where a person enters or remains within a protected area in the course of his employment in contravention of any such regulation the employer and that person are each guilty of an offence against this Act.

        [Section 26 amended: No. 24 of 1995 s. 27.]