93Restrictions relating to use of public reserves and vacant Crown land

93 Restrictions relating to use of public reserves and vacant Crown land

93 Restrictions relating to use of public reserves and vacant Crown land

(1) This clause applies to the following land—

(a) the Lord Howe Island Permanent Park Preserve,

(b) Crown land that is reserved or dedicated for a public purpose under section 19 of the Act,

(c) vacant Crown land.

(2) The Board may direct a person to remove from any land to which this clause applies any item that is deposited on the land, whether or not the item was deposited by the person, if—

(a) in the opinion of the Board, the size, shape, nature or volume of the item makes the place where it is deposited disorderly or detrimentally affects the proper use of that place, and

(b) the person owns, or is otherwise responsible for, the item.

(3) A person to whom such a direction is given must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with the direction.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(4) If the person, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with the direction, the Board may remove the item and recover the reasonable cost of doing so from the person as a debt.

(5) The Board may, by displaying a notice to that effect in a conspicuous position in or in the immediate vicinity of land to which this clause applies and which is specified in the notice, prohibit the use of the land for a purpose specified, or otherwise than for a purpose specified, in the notice.

(6) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with the terms of a notice erected under this clause.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(7) Section 632 of the Local Government Act 1993 applies to a notice under this clause as if references in that section to—

(a) a council were references to the Board, and

(b) a public place within an area of a council were references to the land to which this clause applies.