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CARAVAN PARKS AND CAMPING GROUNDS REGULATIONS 1997 - REG 11

CARAVAN PARKS AND CAMPING GROUNDS REGULATIONS 1997 - REG 11

11 .         Camping other than at caravan park or camping ground

        (1)         A person may camp —

            (a)         for up to 3 nights in any period of 28 consecutive days on land which he or she owns or has a legal right to occupy, and may camp for longer than 3 nights on such land if he or she has written approval under subregulation (2) and is complying with that approval; or

            (b)         for up to 24 consecutive hours in a caravan or other vehicle on a road side rest area; or

            (c)         for up to 24 consecutive hours in a caravan or other vehicle on a road reserve in an emergency, unless to do so would cause a hazard to other road users or contravene any other written law with respect to the use of the road reserve; or

            (d)         on any land which is —

                  (i)         held by a State instrumentality in freehold or leasehold; or

                  (ii)         dedicated, reserved, or set apart under the Land Administration Act 1997 or any other written law, and placed under the care, control or management of a State instrumentality,

                in accordance with the permission of that instrumentality; or

            (e)         on any unallocated Crown land or unmanaged reserve, in accordance with the permission of the Minister within the meaning of the Land Administration Act 1997 , or a person authorised by the Minister to give permission under this paragraph.

        (2)         Written approval may be given for a person to camp on land referred to in subregulation (1)(a) for a period specified in the approval which is longer than 3 nights — 

            (a)         by the local government of the district where the land is situated, if such approval will not result in the land being camped on for longer than 3 months in any period of 12 months; or

            (b)         by the Minister, if such approval will result in the land being camped on for longer than 3 months in any period of 12 months; or

            (c)         despite paragraph (b), by the local government of the district where the land is situated —

                  (i)         if such approval will not result in the land being camped on for longer than 12 consecutive months; and

                  (ii)         if the person owns or has a legal right to occupy the land and is to camp in a caravan on the land while a permit has effect in relation to the land.

        (3)         In this regulation —

        emergency means a situation where to move the caravan or other vehicle to a more suitable area would constitute an immediate and serious hazard due to the condition of the caravan or other vehicle, or a vehicle towing the caravan, or of the driver, or passengers, of any such vehicle;

        permit means a building permit or a demolition permit as defined in the Building Act 2011 section 3;

        road side rest area means an area designated by a traffic sign erected in accordance with a written law, as an area which may be used for 24 hours for —

            (a)         resting; or

            (b)         stopping; or

            (c)         camping,

        in a vehicle;

        State instrumentality has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Land Administration Act 1997 ;

        unallocated Crown land has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Land Administration Act 1997 ;

        unmanaged reserve has the same meaning as it has for the purposes of the Land Administration Act 1997 .

        [Regulation 11 amended: Gazette 16 Jul 1999 p. 3202‑4; 25 Aug 2000 p. 4911; 13 Apr 2012 p. 1660.]