{"id":"parks-and-reserves-bylaws","name":"Parks and Reserves By-laws","slug":"parks-and-reserves-by-laws","collection":"regulation","jurisdiction":"wa","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":179167,"registerId":"wa-parks-and-reserves-bylaws-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-05","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Parks and Reserves By-laws","content":"![Crest]()Western Australia\n\nTHE LAND ACT 1898\n\nParks and Reserves By-laws\n\nWestern Australia\n\nParks and Reserves By-laws\n\nContents\n\n1. Visitors must be accompanied by the Caretaker or Guide 2\n\n2. Admission Fees 2\n\n3. Injuring or destroying Trees 2\n\n4. Injuring or disfiguring Caves 2\n\n5. Injuring the Soil or Surface, or destroying Birds or Animals 3\n\n6. Visitors to act in obedience to instructions of Caretaker or Authorised Guide 3\n\n7. Persons misconducting themselves 3\n\n8. Posting Bills 3\n\n9. Shooting, etc., on the Reserves 4\n\n10. Selling Goods on the Reserves 4\n\n11. Waste Litter of Picnics to be removed 4\n\n12. Camping and Lighting Fires 4\n\n13. Cattle not to be depastured 5\n\n14. Lights to be used 5\n\n15. Smoking in Caves 5\n\n16. Taking Photographs 5\n\n17. Guide or Caretaker may remove any person guilty of improper conduct 5\n\n18. Motor vehicle hire etc. 6\n\n19. Penalty 6\n\nNotes\n\nCompilation table 7\n\n  \n\nWestern Australia\n\n**THE LAND ACT 1898**\n\nParks and Reserves By‑laws\n\nChief Secretary’ Office,\n\nPerth, 23rd June, 1922.\n\nS.H. 15/22.\n\nHIS Excellency the Administrator in Council has been pleased to approve the annexed By‑laws made by Joseph Robert Campbell, General Manager of State Hotels, by virtue of the powers conferred by Order in Council made under Section 43 of “The *Land Act 1898”* and published in the *Government Gazette* of the 9th June, 1922.\n\nH. C. TRETHOWAN,\n\nUnder Secretary.\n\nI, Joseph Robert Campbell, General Manager of State Hotels, by virtue of the powers committed to me by Order in Council published in the *Government Gazette* of 9th June, 1922, under Section 43 of “The *Land Act 1898*,” do hereby revoke all the By­laws heretofore made in respect of the Reserves mentioned in the Schedule to the said Order in Council, or any of them, and do hereby make the By‑laws following, which shall have effect in respect of all of the said Reserves except in so far as the control is indicated in such By‑laws: —\n\n*Visitors must be accompanied by the Caretaker or Guide*\n\n##### 1. Visitors must be accompanied by the Caretaker or Guide\n\nNo person or persons shall enter any Cave unless accompanied by the authorised guide or caretaker.\n\n*Admission Fees*\n\n##### 2. Admission Fees\n\nEvery person entering a Cave shall pay to the caretaker or authorised guide, before entering, such admission fees as may be approved by the Chief Secretary from time to time.\n\n[By-law 2 amended: No. 8 of 1925 s.2.]\n\n*Injuring or destroying Trees*\n\n##### 3. Injuring or destroying Trees\n\nNo person shall injure, cut, break, deface, pull up, pick, remove or destroy, or interfere in any way with any tree, shrub, plant or flower growing on the said reserves.\n\n*Injuring or disfiguring Caves*\n\n##### 4. Injuring or disfiguring Caves\n\nNo person shall break, remove, injure, or deface by writing or by marking, or in any way damage any rock, stalactite, or stalagmite, or remove any rock, stalactite, or stalagmite, or in any way injure, damage, or disfigure the stairways, ladders, cave gates, railings, seats, fences, buildings, machinery, lighting appliances, or other structures or improvements, or gardens, or pleasure grounds and appurtenances within any cave or upon any reserve.\n\n*Injuring the Soil or Surface, or destroying Birds or Animals*\n\n##### 5. Injuring the Soil or Surface, or destroying Birds or Animals\n\nNo person shall cut up, damage or disfigure, or interfere with the soil or rocks or turf or surface of the caves, reserves, or gardens, or pleasure grounds and appurtenances, or the roads or footways across, around, or over the same, or pollute or interfere with any water thereon, interfere with or destroy any birds or animals thereon, in any manner whatsoever.\n\n*Visitors to act in obedience to instructions of Caretaker or Authorised Guide*\n\n##### 6. Visitors to act in obedience to instructions of Caretaker or Authorised Guide\n\nEvery visitor to the reserves or caves therein shall act in obedience to the instructions of the Caretaker or authorised Guide whilst being shown through or over any cave or caves or part of the reserves.\n\n*Persons misconducting themselves*\n\n##### 7. Persons misconducting themselves\n\nNo person or persons shall misconduct themselves in any way by indulging in riotuous or indecent conduct, or make use of any indecent or improper language, or commit any nuisance on or within the said reserves or caves.\n\n*Posting Bills*\n\n##### 8. Posting Bills\n\nNo person shall post, stick, stamp, stencil, paint, or otherwise affix, or cause to be posted, stuck, stamped, stencilled, painted, or otherwise affixed, any placard, handbill, notice, advertisement, or any document whatsoever upon any tree, fence, post, gate, wall, flagging, road path, building, or any place whatever, upon or within the said reserves and caves.\n\n*Shooting, etc., on the Reserves*\n\n##### 9. Shooting, etc., on the Reserves\n\nNo person shall shoot or discharge any firearms, or throw or discharge any stone or missile, upon or within any of the said reserves and caves.\n\n*Selling Goods on the Reserves*\n\n##### 10. Selling Goods on the Reserves\n\nNo person shall sell or expose for sale any goods, wares, merchandise, or things on any portion of the said reserves or caves unless the consent, in writing, of the Board shall be previously obtained, and upon payment of such fees as the Board may direct in each case.\n\n*Waste Litter of Picnics to be removed*\n\n##### 11. Waste Litter of Picnics to be removed\n\nWhen any person, party, company, society, club, or organisation of any kind shall play any game, or shall picnic in or upon the reserves, he or they (as the case may be) shall immediately prior to leaving the grounds collect and remove, or cause to be collected and removed, all waste material, bottles, broken glass, scraps, paper, litter, or rubbish of any kind brought or made upon the ground by them.\n\n*Camping and Lighting Fires*\n\n##### 12. Camping and Lighting Fires\n\nNo person or persons shall camp or light any fire upon any cave reserve, except in such position and under such conditions as may be approved by the authorised guide or caretaker or servant of the Board duly authorised, and upon permission of such authorised guide or caretaker or servant of the Board having first been obtained.\n\n*Cattle not to be depastured*\n\n##### 13. Cattle not to be depastured\n\nNo person shall cause, suffer, or allow any horse, cattle, sheep, goats, camel, donkey, mule, pig or other animal to stray or depasture upon any reserve or reserves without the special approval of the Board having been first obtained in writing, and upon payment of such fees as the Board may direct in each case.\n\n*Lights to be used*\n\n##### 14. Lights to be used\n\nNo person shall use in any cave any artificial light or lights except those provided by the Board or its servants.\n\n*Smoking in Caves*\n\n##### 15. Smoking in Caves\n\nNo person shall smoke within any cave.\n\n*Taking Photographs*\n\n##### 16. Taking Photographs\n\nNo person shall take photographs in any cave without the permission of the guide or caretaker, and upon payment of any or such fees as the Board may direct in each case.\n\n*Guide or Caretaker may remove any person guilty of improper conduct*\n\n##### 17. Guide or Caretaker may remove any person guilty of improper conduct\n\nAny guide, caretaker, or servant of the Board may exclude or remove from the reserves or caves any person or persons guilty of a breach of these By­laws.\n\n##### 18. Motor vehicle hire etc.\n\nNo person shall, without the permission of the Board first obtained, ply for motor or other vehicular hire *or carry and/or convey any passenger or luggage for hire* within Reserve A 8427, within which Cave House, Yallingup, is situated.\n\nAny such permission as aforesaid may be given for such period as the Board of Management may from time to time determine.\n\nThe Board of Management may make it a condition of the granting of any permission under these By‑laws that the person applying for such permission shall pay such fees as may be from time to time ordered by the Board of Management with the approval of the Chief Secretary.\n\n[By-law 18 amended: No. 8 of 1925 s.2.]\n\n*Penalty*\n\n##### 19. Penalty\n\nEvery person offending against any of the provisions of these By‑laws shall forfeit and pay, on conviction, a penalty not exceeding Twenty pounds.\n\nNotes\n\n1. This is a compilation of the *Parks and Reserves By‑laws* and includes the amendments referred to in the following Table.\n\nCompilation table\n\n| **Citation** | **Gazettal** | **Commencement** |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| *Parks and Reserves By‑laws* | 23 Jun 1922 pp.1165‑66 | 23 Jun 1922 |\n| *Ministers’ Titles Act 1925* s. 2 assented to 24 Sep 1925 | | 24 Sep 1925 |\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"issue_detection":{"absurdities":[],"contradictions":[]},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains focused on its original purpose: regulating visitor conduct in specific cave reserves and parks under the Land Act 1898. The 1925 amendments merely updated ministerial titles and clarified fee structures without expanding the geographic or substantive scope."},"complexity_factors":["Short document: only 19 by-laws spanning 6 pages","Minimal defined terms: only 'Board' and 'Chief Secretary' require context from the enabling Act","No cross-references between by-laws (each stands alone)","Simple conditional logic: mostly straightforward prohibitions ('No person shall...') with occasional exceptions requiring 'permission of the Board'","No nested exceptions or complex provisos","Linear structure: numbered list format with descriptive headings","Only 2 amendments recorded (1925), both minor (Ministers' Titles Act and fee-related changes to by-laws 2 and 18)"],"plain_english_summary":"This is a set of old Western Australian rules from 1922 that govern how people behave in protected parks and caves (specifically cave reserves like Yallingup). Think of it as the 'house rules' for visiting natural attractions.\n\n**What it does:**\n- **Controls access:** You can't enter caves without an official guide or caretaker, and you must pay an entry fee.\n- **Protects nature:** Bans damaging trees, plants, rocks, stalactites, soil, birds, and animals. No shooting, no littering, no grazing livestock.\n- **Preserves the sites:** Prohibits breaking or writing on cave formations, posting bills/advertisements, or taking photos without permission and payment.\n- **Regulates behaviour:** Visitors must follow guide instructions, behave decently (no 'riotous or indecent conduct'), and can't smoke in caves.\n- **Manages commercial activity:** Bans selling goods or operating hire vehicles without written Board permission and fees.\n- **Safety rules:** Fires and camping only allowed in approved spots with permission; only Board-provided lights allowed in caves.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n- Tourists and visitors to WA cave reserves\n- Tour guides and caretakers (who have power to remove rule-breakers)\n- The 'Board' (management body) and Chief Secretary who set fees\n- Anyone wanting to run commercial activities (selling, vehicle hire) on the reserves\n\n**Why it matters:**\nThese by-laws were designed to protect fragile cave environments and natural reserves from damage, manage visitor safety, and generate revenue through fees. They reflect early 20th-century conservation thinking—treating caves as commercial tourist attractions needing strict supervision rather than wilderness areas. The rules give significant power to guides/caretakers as enforcers.\n\n**Key feature:** The penalty for breaking any rule is a fine up to £20 (a substantial sum in 1922)."},"summary":{"complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"No scope assessment is possible. The document contains no legislative content — only a website error notice. The original intent of the Parks and Reserves By-laws cannot be determined from the material provided."},"complexity_factors":["No legislative text was present in the provided document — only a broken/redirected webpage error message","Cannot assess complexity of the actual by-laws without access to their content","Score of 1 reflects the absence of any substantive legal material to analyse, not the simplicity of the underlying legislation"],"plain_english_summary":"**No legislation could be analysed.**\n\nThe document provided does not contain any actual legislative text. Instead, it is an error page from the Western Australian legislation website, indicating that the page for the *Parks and Reserves By-laws* is **no longer available** at its previous web address due to system and security upgrades.\n\n**What this means for you:**\n- The actual by-laws content was not captured or provided.\n- If you need to read the Parks and Reserves By-laws, you will need to visit the Western Australian legislation website (legislation.wa.gov.au) and search for them directly using the site's menu or search function.\n- You can also contact the Parliamentary Counsel's Office Helpdesk for assistance finding the correct link."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument replaces earlier by‑laws for the reserves listed in the Order in Council but stays focused on regulating entry, conduct, commercial permissions and enforcement within those reserves. The text contains amendments to particular clauses (e.g. By‑laws 2 and 18) and to ministerial titles, but the supplied material does not show an expansion of geographic or subject‑matter scope beyond the specified reserves."},"complexity_factors":["Delegated discretion: the Board and Chief Secretary may set admission and other fees and grant permissions (By‑laws 2, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18).","Multiple, specific prohibitions across different behaviours and assets (trees, cave formations, soil, water, litter, fires, smoking, photography, sales), creating many discrete compliance rules (By‑laws 3–5, 8–16).","Enforcement and operational discretion vested in on‑site actors (caretaker/authorised guide) who can direct visitors and remove offenders (By‑laws 6, 17).","Penalty regime: criminal sanction on conviction with a single maximum fine (Twenty pounds) which is an outdated fixed quantum (By‑law 19).","Geographic and instrument linkage: rules apply only to reserves specified by Order in Council/Schedule, requiring cross‑reference to that instrument to know coverage (Introductory text).","Document history: later amendments to specific by‑laws and ministerial titles are noted, requiring attention to compilation/amendment trail (Compilation notes; amendments to By‑laws 2 and 18)."],"plain_english_summary":"These by-laws regulate entry, behaviour and commercial activity in specified Western Australian caves and reserves. They require visitors to be accompanied by authorised staff, allow the Board or Chief Secretary to set admission and other fees and permissions, forbid damage, littering and unauthorised sales, and give caretakers and the Board powers to exclude offenders and enforce penalties. They affect visitors, commercial operators and owners of livestock by shifting decisions about access, fees and permitted activities to Board/authorised staff and creating criminal penalties for breaches."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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