THE NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVES ORDINANCE, 1998

THE NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVES REGULATIONS, 1998
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ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

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 PART I

PRELIMINARY

Regulation

1.         Citation and commencement.

2.         Interpretation.

PART II

ENTRY INTO NATIONAL PARK AND NATURE RESERVE

3.         Fees and charges.

4.         Park ticket.

5.         Special permission.

6.         Denial of entry of person into a national park or nature reserve.

7.         Visitors to be accompanied by a park guide.

8.         Park guide to be licensed.

9.         Expulsion of person from a national park or nature reserve.

10.       Exemption from liability.

11.       Exercise of subsisting right or privilege.

PART III

MANAGEMENT OF SPECIFIC AREAS

A. Aquatic Areas

12.       Aquatic areas.

13.       Supervision and guidance by park guide.

14.       Permitted hours of diving.

15.       Requirements for SCUBA diving.

16.       Requirements for skin-diving.

17.       Vessels for diving.

18.       Anchorage of vessels.

B. Turtle Beach

19.       Entry into a turtle beach zone.

20.       Vessels in a turtle beach zone.

21.       Restriction of activities in a turtle beach zone.

C. Caves.

23.       Entry to caves.

24.       Restrictions on persons.

25.       Special restrictions on persons.

26.       Prohibited activities of visitors.

27.       Entry to wild cave.

28.       Instruction, order or directions.

29.       Eviction.

D. Historical Sites

30.       Duty of Controller to protect historical sites, etc.

32.       Designation of historical site.

33.       Special area.

PART IV

MISCELLANEOUS

34.       General fees.

35.       Rent.

36.       Non-transferability of permits, licences, etc.

37.       General penalty.

38.       Requirement, direction, order or permission.

39.       Compensation for damages to property and natural environment.

40.       Prohibition as to fire.

41.       Cancellation or withdrawal of permit, licence or permission.

42.       Closure of public facility, etc due to degradation.

43.       Appeal.

44.       Code of ethics and other acts prohibited in a national park or nature reserve.

45.       Deposit to be paid by holder of permit or licence.

46.       Visitor to take out their rubbish from a national park or nature reserve.

47.       Responsibility of managing agents.

48.       Compoundable offences.

49.       Offer to compound.

50.       Sum to be collected and mode of payment.

51.       Revocation.

First Schedule - Form of permit.

Second Schedule - Fees and charges.

Third Schedule -

Form A - Form for compounding of offence.

Form B - Form for payment.

1. Citation and commencement.

2. Interpretation.