Part 1 Preliminary

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Regulation

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the National Parks and Wildlife Regulation 2019.

2 Commencement

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 September 2019 and is required to be published on the NSW legislation website.

Note.

This Regulation replaces the National Parks and Wildlife Regulation 2009, which is repealed on 1 September 2019 by section 10(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.

3 Definitions

3 Definitions

(1) In this Regulation—

aircraft means any airborne craft, including a fixed wing craft, helicopter, gyrocopter, glider, hang glider, hot air balloon, airship or unmanned aircraft.

assistance animal means an animal referred to in section 9 (Carer, assistant, assistance animal and disability aid definitions) of the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 of the Commonwealth.

determining authority has the same meaning as in Division 5.1 of Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

disability assistance aid means a vehicle other than a motor car designed for use by a person with a disability and includes a motorised wheelchair.

drive includes ride or draw (in relation to a vehicle) and ride or lead (in relation to an animal).

fossil means any naturally preserved remains or evidence of past life (whether wholly or partially petrified) including bones, shells, impressions and trails.

litter, whether or not it has any value when or after being deposited in or on a place, includes—

(a) any solid or liquid domestic or commercial refuse, debris or rubbish deposited in or on a place, and includes any glass, metal, cigarette butts, paper, fabric, wood, food, construction or demolition material, garden remnants and clippings, soil, sand or rocks, and

(b) any other material, substance or thing deposited in or on a place if its size, shape, nature or volume makes the place where it is deposited disorderly or detrimentally affects the proper use of that place.

moor a vessel includes attach a vessel to a mooring by any means.

mooring means any post, stake, pile, float, pontoon or any other object (other than the anchor of a vessel) secured by any direct or indirect means to the waters’ bed or placed on the waters’ bed for the purpose of attaching a vessel to the bed.

national parks officer means a person employed in the Department who is principally involved in the administration of the following Acts—

(a) the Act,

(b) Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016,

(c) Wilderness Act 1987,

(d) Marine Estate Management Act 2014.

park—

(a) when used as a noun, means a national park, historic site, state conservation area, regional park, nature reserve, karst conservation reserve or Aboriginal area, or any land acquired by the Minister under Part 11 of the Act, and includes all roads and waters within the boundaries of any such park, site, area, reserve or land, and

(b) when used as a verb, means to park a vehicle or to cause or allow a vehicle to park, stand or wait.

park authority means the following—

(a) in relation to a state conservation area for which a trust has the care, control and management of the area—

(i) when used in connection with the imposition or waiver of fees and charges—the Minister, or

(ii) when used in connection with other circumstances—the trust,

(b) in relation to a regional park for which a trust or local council has the care, control and management of the park—

(i) when used in connection with the imposition or waiver of fees and charges—the Minister, or

(ii) when used in connection with other circumstances—the trust or local council,

(c) in relation to a state conservation area or a regional park for which there is no trust or local council with the care, control and management of the park—the Secretary,

(d) in relation to the Jenolan Caves Visitor Use and Services Zone for the relevant period (within the meaning of Part 6 of Schedule 3 to the Act)—the administrator appointed by the Minister under clause 58 of that Schedule,

(e) in relation to a national park, historic site, nature reserve, karst conservation reserve (other than a karst conservation reserve to which paragraph (d) applies), Aboriginal area or any land acquired by the Minister under Part 11 of the Act—the Secretary,

(f) in relation to each area of land reserved under Part 4A of the Act—

(i) until such time as a board of management is established, in accordance with Division 6 of Part 4A, for the area—the Secretary, and

(ii) on and from the establishment of the board of management—the board of management.

park user means a person in a park or intending to enter a park.

ski resort area has the same meaning as in Part 8A of Schedule 1 to the Environmental Planning and Assessment (Savings, Transitional and Other Provisions) Regulation 2017.

smoke has the same meaning as in the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000.

tag includes a label, slip or other object for affixing or attaching to the skins or carcases of fauna.

the Act means the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.

trustees, in relation to a state conservation area or regional park, means—

(a) the trustees of the area or regional park appointed under the Act, or

(b) a person appointed as administrator of the area or regional park under the Act, or

(c) if there are no trustees and no administrator of the area or regional park, the Secretary.

unmanned aircraft means any unmanned airborne craft, including a drone or other remotely piloted airborne craft.

vessel means a water craft of any description that is used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water but does not include an aircraft that is capable of landing on water.

waters includes a stream, creek, river, estuary, dam, lake or reservoir.

Note.

The Act and the Interpretation Act 1987 contain definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this Regulation.

(2) Notes included in this Regulation do not form part of this Regulation.

cl 3: Am 2021 (25), Sch 1[2]; 2021 No 47, Sch 2[1]; 2025 (329), Sch 1[1] [2].

4 Examples of consent to activities on land

4 Examples of consent to activities on land

(1) This clause prescribes some circumstances in which consent to the carrying out of activity on land may occur for the purposes of this Regulation.

(2) A filming approval granted under the Filming Approval Act 2004 to carry out a filming activity within the meaning of that Act on land reserved or dedicated under the Act is taken to constitute consent to the carrying out of that activity on land by the park authority for the land in accordance with the conditions of the approval.

(3) Subject to subclause (4), a lease or licence granted under Part 11 or 12 of the Act that authorises a person to carry out an activity in a park (whether granted by the park authority concerned or some other person) is taken to constitute consent to the carrying out of that activity on the land by the park authority for the park in accordance with the conditions of the lease or licence.

(4) Subclause (3) does not apply to a lease or licence granted under Part 12 of the Act in relation to the following places—

(a) any state conservation area for which a trust is the park authority,

(b) any regional park for which a trust or local council is the park authority,

(c) the Jenolan Caves Visitor Use and Services Zone for the relevant period within the meaning of Part 6 of Schedule 3 to the Act (being the period during which the administrator appointed by the Minister under clause 58 of that Schedule is the trust authority),

(d) any area of land reserved under Part 4A of the Act for which a board of management is established in accordance with Division 6 of Part 4A.

(5) However, if before the grant of the lease or licence under Part 12 of the Act in relation to the places referred to in subclause (4), the relevant park authority, administrator or board of management has concurred in the grant, the lease or licence is taken to constitute consent to the carrying out of that activity on the land by the park authority for the park in accordance with the conditions of the lease or licence.

5 Exclusion from meaning of “harm” objects and places

5 Exclusion from meaning of “harm” objects and places

An act carried out in accordance with the Code of Practice for Archaeological Investigation of Aboriginal Objects in New South Wales as published by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water in the Gazette on 24 September 2010 is excluded from the definition of harm an object or place in section 5(1) of the Act.

Part 2 Regulation of use of parks

Part 2 Regulation of use of parks

Division 1 Regulation by notices or direction

Division 1 Regulation by notices or direction

6 Regulation by public or written notices

6 Regulation by public or written notices

(1) A park authority may do any of the following by means of notices displayed in, or at the boundary of, the park or part of the park to which the notices relate or by means of written notices given to park users—

(a) designate points of entry to the park,

(b) close the park, or any part of the park, to the public,

(c) reserve the park, or any part of the park, for a particular use or for the use of particular persons or bodies or a particular sector of the public,

(d) impose fees and charges on persons—

(i) entering or using the park or a part of the park, other than by motor vehicle, or

(ii) using facilities in the park, or

(iii) driving animals who enter or use a public road or other road traversing the park,

(d1) impose conditions relating to the payment of fees or charges imposed under paragraph (d),

(d2) impose conditions on persons entering or using the park, a part of the park or facilities in the park,

(e) regulate or prohibit the use of any facilities in the park or the carrying out of activities (including driving, stopping or parking vehicles, driving animals or operating or mooring vessels) in the park,

(f) grant any consent that is required by this Regulation in relation to the use of the park,

(g), (h) (Repealed)

(i) prohibit the collection of deadfalls of timber in the park.

(1A) A park authority may close a park, or part of a park, by publishing a public notice on a website maintained by the Service.

(1B) If a park authority publishes a notice under subclause (1A), the authority must, as soon as practicable, display a notice about the closure in, or at the boundary of, the park or part of the park to which the notice relates.

(2) A person must not—

(a) enter any park or part of a park that is closed to the public in accordance with this clause, or

(b) remain, or leave a vehicle parked, in any park or part of a park after the time that it is closed to the public in accordance with this clause, or

(c) enter any park or part of a park that is reserved for the use of particular persons or bodies or for a particular sector of the public in accordance with this clause unless the person is a person, or belongs to a body or sector of the public, for whose use it is reserved, or

(d) use any park or part of a park for a use other than that for which it is reserved, or

(e) enter or use any park or part of a park or any public or other road traversing a park without paying any fee or charge that is imposed in that regard in accordance with this clause, or

(f) use any facilities in a park or carry out any activity (including driving an animal) in a park in contravention of the terms of a notice under this clause, or

(g) enter or use any park, any part of a park, any facilities in a park or any public or other road traversing a park otherwise than in accordance with any conditions imposed in accordance with this clause, or

(h) collect deadfalls of timber in a park in contravention of the terms of a notice under this clause.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2A) Subclause (2)(a) applies whether or not a notice has been displayed in accordance with subclause (1B).

(3) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(4) A park authority may waive payment by any person or class of persons of any fee or charge imposed under this clause.

cl 6: Am 2021 (25), Sch 1[3] [4]; 2025 (329), Sch 1[3]–[5].

7 Regulation by oral direction

7 Regulation by oral direction

(1) A park authority may issue an oral direction to a park user in relation to any of the following—

(a) points of entry to the park to be used by the park user,

(b) the closing of the park, or any part of the park, to the park user,

(c) reserving the park, or any part of the park, for a particular use or for the use of particular persons or bodies or a particular sector of the public,

(d) the regulation or prohibition of the use of any facilities in the park or the carrying out of activities (including driving vehicles or animals) in the park,

(e) the granting of any consent that is required by this Regulation in relation to the use of the park,

(f) the imposition of conditions, including conditions relating to the payment of fees or charges, on the park user (whether on foot or driving vehicles or animals) entering or using the park, any part of the park or any facilities in the park,

(g) the regulation or prohibition of the collection of deadfalls of timber in the park.

(2) A park user to whom such a direction is given must comply with the direction.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

8 Removal of persons by direction

8 Removal of persons by direction

(1) A designated officer may direct a person to leave a park or any part of a park if, in the reasonable opinion of the designated officer, the person—

(a) is trespassing, or

(b) is causing a nuisance or inconvenience to any other person in the park, or

(c) has contravened, or is about to contravene, the Act or this regulation.

(2) In giving a direction, the designated officer must specify—

(a) the period within which the person must leave the area to which the direction relates, and

(b) the period, not exceeding 28 days, during which the person must not return to the park, or part of the park.

(3) A direction may be given orally to the person or by written notice served on the person.

(4) A direction given under subclause (1) may provide that a person must not enter one or more nearby parks during the period specified under subclause (2)(b) if the designated officer is satisfied it is necessary for one or more of the following reasons—

(a) to protect the public or national parks officers,

(b) to protect the environment,

(c) to prevent damage to a park, or part of a park,

(d) to prevent interference with the care, control and management of a park.

(5) In specifying a period under subclause (2)(b), the designated officer must consider the seriousness and persistence of the person’s conduct.

(5A) A designated officer may, by written notice served on the person to whom a direction was given under this clause, vary or revoke the direction.

(5B) A variation of a direction under subclause (5A) may not specify a period during which a person must not return to the specified area exceeding 28 days from the date on which the direction under subclause (1) was given.

(5C) If a person fails to comply with a direction given under this clause, a designated officer may remove the person from a specified area and remove things belonging to or associated with the person, including equipment or a vehicle.

(5D) A person to whom a direction is given under this clause must remove from a specified area things belonging to or associated with the person, including equipment or a vehicle.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(5E) A person must not remain on, enter or return to a specified area in contravention of a direction given under this clause.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(5F) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a designated officer and in accordance with any conditions to which that consent is subject.

(6) In this clause—

designated officer, in relation to a park, means—

(a) a national parks officer, or

(b) a person who is authorised by the park authority to exercise the powers conferred by this clause, or

(c) a police officer.

specified area means the park, or part of the park, a designated officer directs a person to leave under subclause (1) and any park specified by the designated officer in accordance with subclause (4).

cl 8: Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[6]–[9].

8A Secretary may revoke or replace direction

8A Secretary may revoke or replace direction

(1) This clause applies if a direction has been given under clause 8.

(2) The Secretary may, by written notice served on the person to whom the direction was given, do one or more of the following—

(a) revoke the direction,

(b) give a further direction,

(c) vary or revoke a direction given under paragraph (b).

(3) The Secretary may give or vary a direction under this clause if satisfied it is necessary for one or more of the following reasons—

(a) to protect the public or national parks officers,

(b) to protect the environment,

(c) to prevent damage to a park, or part of a park,

(d) to prevent interference with the care, control and management of a park.

(4) Clause 8(2), (4) and (5) apply to a direction given or varied by the Secretary under this clause in the same way they apply to a direction given by a designated officer under clause 8.

(5) A direction given under this clause may apply for a period exceeding 28 days.

(6) If the Secretary gives or varies a direction under this clause—

(a) a designated officer may exercise the powers referred to in clause 8(5C) in relation to the direction, and

(b) clause 8(5D)–(5F) apply in relation to the direction.

(7) In this clause—

designated officer has the same meaning as in clause 8.

cl 8A: Ins 2025 (329), Sch 1[10].

Division 2 Regulation of traffic

Division 2 Regulation of traffic

9 Entry of vehicles into parks

9 Entry of vehicles into parks

(1) A person must not drive a vehicle into a park otherwise than on a road leading into or traversing the park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

10 Use of vehicles, animals, vessels and machines in parks

10 Use of vehicles, animals, vessels and machines in parks

(1) A person must not do any of the following in a park—

(a) operate, drive or use a vehicle other than a permitted vehicle,

(b) operate, drive, use or have within the person’s possession an oversnow vehicle,

(c) operate, drive, park or use a permitted vehicle that is a motor vehicle unless the vehicle is registered,

(d) drive or park a registered vehicle if that vehicle—

(i) (Repealed)

(ii) is required to display a valid registration label but does not display that label, or

(iii) has no number-plate or registration plate, or

(iv) has its number-plate or registration plate covered or obscured, or

(v) has a false or incorrect number-plate or registration plate, or

(vi) has a number-plate or registration plate that has been changed or altered,

(e) drive a vehicle or animal, or tether an animal, otherwise than on a road, track, trail or way, or in an area, set aside for that purpose,

(f) drive a vehicle or animal in a dangerous or reckless manner,

(g) park a vehicle otherwise than in an area set aside for parking vehicles,

(g1) park a vehicle on a length of road to which a no parking sign applies,

(g2) park a vehicle continuously on a length of road, or in an area, to which a permissive parking sign applies for longer than the period indicated by information on or with the sign,

(g3) park a vehicle in an area set aside for parking vehicles otherwise than in accordance with a condition relating to the parking of a vehicle in that area indicated by information on or with a sign in the area,

(g4) stop on a length of road, or in an area, to which a no stopping sign applies,

(h) park a vehicle in a parking area set aside for persons with disabilities unless the person’s vehicle displays a valid mobility parking scheme authority and the person complies with the conditions of that authority,

(i) operate or use a vessel on any waters on which the operation or use of such a vessel is prohibited,

(j) operate or use a vessel in such a manner as to endanger the safety of other users of the park,

(k) operate or use a vessel in a commercial operation,

(l) tie a vessel by any means to any vegetation,

(m) moor a vessel otherwise than in an area set aside for the mooring of vessels,

(n) operate or use any heavy or noisy machinery,

(o) park a vehicle in a way so as to obstruct the use of a road, track or trail by any other vehicle, or endanger the safety of other park users,

(p) park a vehicle in a way that damages or destroys vegetation, an object or place of cultural value or another thing in or on the land, including a building, structure, pipe, sign, gate or fence.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(1A) Subclause (1)(c) does not apply to—

(a) a motor vehicle referred to in the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulation 2017, Schedule 1, clause 15 or 16, or

Note—

These clauses relate to certain electric bicycles and to vehicles used by certain persons with a disability.

(b) a motor vehicle driven or parked in the Worimi Conservation Lands that is registered under the Recreation Vehicles Act 1983.

(2) A person must not drive or park a vehicle on a road, track, trail or way or in an area in a park if—

(a) a gate, barrier or similar device is positioned, or an obstruction has been created by any means, in such a way as to restrict or obstruct vehicular access to the road, track, trail, way or area, or

(b) vehicular access to a road, track, trail, way or area is restricted or obstructed in any other way.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A designated officer may cause a vehicle to be towed or otherwise removed from a park or any part of a park if, in the opinion of the designated officer—

(a) the vehicle is parked in a dangerous manner or in a dangerous location, and

(b) it is not practicable to locate and issue the owner or driver of the vehicle with an oral direction under clause 7.

(4) A person must not drive a vehicle so as to cause damage to any road, track, trail, way or area in a park if vehicular access to the road, track, trail, way or area has been prohibited or restricted by the park authority in any way.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(5) A person must not—

(a) open any gate, barrier or similar device in a park, or

(b) remove, shift, damage or destroy any gate or barrier or similar device in a park, or any obstruction that has been positioned or created, by any means, so as to restrict or obstruct vehicular access to any road, track, trail, way or area in a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(6) A person does not—

(a) commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) commit an offence under subclause (1)(g) if the person has parked the vehicle—

(i) in accordance with the requirements of a written notice displayed at the area where the person is parked or at the park entry, or

(ii) in accordance with an oral direction given to the person by a designated officer, or

(iii) if no notice is displayed or direction given—in a way that does not contravene subclause (1)(o) and (p).

(c) (Repealed)

(7) In this clause—

designated officer, in relation to a park, means—

(a) a national parks officer, or

(b) a person who is authorised by the park authority to exercise the powers conferred by this clause, or

(c) a police officer.

mobility parking scheme authority has the same meaning as in the Road Transport (General) Regulation 2021.

number-plate means a number-plate issued—

(a) under the Road Transport Act 2013, or

(b) by a competent authority of another jurisdiction.

permissive parking sign means a traffic sign of the kind referred to in the Road Rules 2014, rule 204.

permitted vehicle means the following—

(a) a motor car,

(b) a bus,

(c) a truck,

(d) a motor cycle,

(e) a motor scooter,

(f) a disability assistance aid,

(g) a bicycle,

(h) a wheeled recreational device.

registered means registered in Australia within the meaning of the Road Transport Act 2013.

registration plate means a registration plate issued—

(a) under the Recreation Vehicles Act 1983, or

(b) by a competent authority of another jurisdiction.

vessel includes a boat, surf board, boogie board, wind surfer, wave jumper, sail board, raft, kayak, canoe, dinghy or jet ski.

wheeled recreational device has the same meaning as in the Road Rules 2014.

Worimi Conservation Lands means the lands comprising the following parks—

(a) Worimi National Park,

(b) Worimi Regional Park,

(c) Worimi State Conservation Area.

cl 10: Am 2019 No 14, Sch 2.17; 2021 (25), Sch 1[5]; 2021 (487), Sch 7.7; 2025 (329), Sch 1[11]–[21].

Division 2A Fees and charges—motor vehicles

Division 2A Fees and charges—motor vehicles

pt 2, div 2A: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

10A Definitions

10A Definitions

In this Division—

applicable period of time and applicable time and date—see clause 10B(2).

park, when used as a noun, includes part of a park or a public road or other road traversing a park.

waiver determination—see clause 10H(1).

waiver pass—see clause 10H(4).

cl 10A: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

10B Secretary may determine fees and charges

10B Secretary may determine fees and charges

(1) The Secretary may, from time to time, determine fees or charges payable for entry by persons by motor vehicle to a park.

(2) A determination of a fee or charge may—

(a) specify a corresponding time and date by which (the applicable time and date), or a period of time within which (the applicable period of time), a person entering the park by motor vehicle must ensure the motor vehicle by which the person entered the park is removed from the park, and

(b) impose conditions relating to the payment of fees or charges.

(3) A copy of a determination made under this clause must be published on the website of the Department as soon as possible after the determination is made.

cl 10B: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6]. Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[22].

10C Conditions of entry to parks

10C Conditions of entry to parks

(1) It is a condition of entry to a park by motor vehicle by a person who has entered the park after paying a fee or charge determined under clause 10B(2)(a) that the person must ensure the motor vehicle is removed from the park by the applicable time and date or before the expiry of the applicable period of time.

(2) The Secretary may, from time to time, make a determination imposing other conditions of entry on persons entering a park by motor vehicle.

cl 10C: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

10D Notification of fees and charges in parks

10D Notification of fees and charges in parks

The Secretary is to ensure that the fees or charges determined under clause 10B are displayed in a public notice erected at or adjacent to each entrance to the park to which the fees or charges relate.

cl 10D: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

10E Issue of receipt, ticket or pass on payment of fee or charge

10E Issue of receipt, ticket or pass on payment of fee or charge

(1) On payment of the fee or charge determined under clause 10B, a person is to be issued with a receipt, ticket or pass to show that the fee or charge for entry to the park has been paid.

(2) The receipt, ticket or pass may be issued in an electronic form.

cl 10E: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

10F Entry without paying fees or charges

10F Entry without paying fees or charges

(1) A person must not enter a park by motor vehicle without paying the fee or charge determined under clause 10B for the entry.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause if another person in the motor vehicle has paid the required fee or charge.

(3) A park authority may, in a particular case, waive payment of a required fee or charge.

(4) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with conditions to which the consent is subject.

cl 10F: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

10G Failure to comply with conditions of entry

10G Failure to comply with conditions of entry

(1) A person who has entered a park after paying a fee or charge determined under clause 10B(2)(a) must not park a motor vehicle in the park after the applicable time and date or after the expiry of the applicable period of time.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

Note—

Clause 3 provides that, when used as a verb, park means to park a vehicle or to cause or allow a vehicle to park, stand or wait.

(2) A person must not fail to comply with a condition of entry determined under clause 10C(2).

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with conditions to which the consent is subject.

cl 10G: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

10H Waiver determinations and waiver passes

10H Waiver determinations and waiver passes

(1) The Secretary may, from time to time, determine to waive, in whole or part, the requirement for a person or a class of persons to pay a fee or charge determined under clause 10B (waiver determination).

(2) A waiver determination may specify different categories of waiver.

(3) (Repealed)

(4) A person may apply to the Secretary for a waiver pass, waiving, in whole or part, the requirement for the person to pay a fee or charge determined under clause 10B.

(5) A waiver pass may be issued—

(a) subject to conditions determined by the Secretary and notified in writing to the person to whom the waiver pass is issued, and

(b) in electronic or hard copy form.

(6) A waiver pass must specify 1 or more motor vehicles that are subject to the pass.

(7) The Secretary may vary or revoke a waiver pass at any time by written notice given to the person to whom the waiver pass has been issued.

(8) To avoid doubt, a person who enters a park by motor vehicle does not commit an offence under clause 10F(1)—

(a) if the driver or a passenger in the motor vehicle is the subject of a waiver determination, or

(b) if—

(i) the driver or a passenger in the motor vehicle and the motor vehicle are the subject of a valid waiver pass, and

(ii) the entry is in accordance with all conditions applying to the waiver pass.

cl 10H: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6]. Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[23].

10I Display of receipt, ticket or pass

10I Display of receipt, ticket or pass

(1) A person who parks a motor vehicle in a park must ensure the motor vehicle clearly displays a valid receipt, ticket or pass to show that the fee or charge determined under clause 10B for entry to the park has been paid, unless—

(a) the receipt, ticket or pass was issued in an electronic form, or

(b) the motor vehicle clearly displays a receipt, ticket or pass to show that a park authority has waived payment of a required fee or charge under clause 10F(3), or

(c) the driver or a passenger in the motor vehicle is the subject of a waiver determination and the motor vehicle clearly displays a receipt, ticket or pass issued by the park authority to show that the motor vehicle was permitted to enter the park on that basis, or

(d) the driver or a passenger in the motor vehicle and the motor vehicle are the subject of a valid waiver pass issued in an electronic form, or

(e) the driver or a passenger in the motor vehicle and the motor vehicle are the subject of a valid waiver pass issued in hard copy form and the motor vehicle clearly displays the waiver pass.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

Note—

Clause 3 provides that, when used as a verb, park means to park a vehicle or to cause or allow a vehicle to park, stand or wait.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with conditions to which the consent is subject.

cl 10I: Ins 2021 (25), Sch 1[6].

Division 3 Regulation of conduct

Division 3 Regulation of conduct

11 Taking and keeping of animals

11 Taking and keeping of animals

(1) A person must not—

(a) take into or release an animal in a park or onto any public or other road traversing a park, or

(b) place or keep an animal in a park or on any public or other road traversing a park, or

(c) have charge, possession or control of an animal in a park or on any public or other road traversing a park, or

(d) fail to prevent an animal of which the person has charge, possession or control from entering a park or entering onto any public or other road traversing a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause—

(a) if the animal is an assistance animal, or

(b) if a person takes an animal into a park or onto any public or other road traversing a park, in accordance with and subject to any conditions stated in a plan of management for a park, unless a notice erected in the park or given to the person prohibits the taking of animals into the park or any part of the park to which the plan relates, or

(c) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(3) This clause does not prevent a park authority for a regional park from prohibiting the matters referred to in subclause (1) by means of notices displayed in accordance with this Regulation.

(4) In this clause—

park does not include a regional park.

12 Camping and residing

12 Camping and residing

(1) A person must not camp in a park except in an area set aside for camping.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person must not camp in a park—

(a) for a continuous period of more than 21 days, or

(b) if a different maximum number of days is set out in a notice erected in the park or given to the person—for more than the maximum number of days set out in the notice, or

(c) if a different maximum number of days is set out in a plan of management for the park but not in any notice erected in the park or given to the person—for more than the maximum number of days for camping in the park set out in the plan.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A person must not permanently reside in a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(4) A person does not commit an offence under this clause—

(a) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) where a plan of management for a park makes provision for camping otherwise than by setting aside an area for camping—if the person camps in the park in accordance with the plan, or

(c) where there is no plan of management for the park—if the person camps in a non-designated camping area if that area is more than 1 kilometre from any designated camping area, car parking area or picnic area or from a road, track or trail designated for vehicular use by the public.

(5) Despite subclause (4)(b) and (c), a person must not camp in a park (or a part of a park) if a notice erected in the park or given to the person prohibits camping in the park (or the part of the park).

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(6) In this clause—

camp includes dwell or lodge temporarily (whether or not in a tent, caravan, cabin, vehicle, trailer or other structure) or use any part of a park for the purpose of camping.

13 Littering and damage

13 Littering and damage

(1) A person must not—

(a) deposit or leave any litter in a park except in an area or receptacle provided by the park authority for that purpose, or

(b) if no area or receptacle for litter is provided by the park authority—fail to remove from the park all litter taken into or created by the person in the park, or

(c) deposit or leave any waste in a park, or

(c1) deposit or leave asbestos waste, within the meaning of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, in a park, or

(d) deposit, discharge or leave in a park any offal, filth, dung or dead animal or any noisome, noxious, offensive or polluting substance, matter or thing, or

(e) wilfully break any article of glass, china, pottery or plastic in a park, or

(f) write or paint or otherwise mark or affix any bill, notice or advertisement on or to, or deface by painting, carving, scratching or any other means, or damage, destroy, remove or interfere with, any fixture, improvement, rock, tree, equipment, water supply or Aboriginal object in a park, or

(g) deposit, leave or abandon a vehicle or part of a vehicle in a park, or

(h) carry or possess, interfere with, dig up, cut up, collect or remove for any purpose any soil, sand, gravel, fossil, clay, rock, ochre, mineral, timber (whether or not consisting of or including dead timber), gum resin, humus or other natural substance or object in a park, whether on land or on or under water, or

(i) dam, divert or pollute the water in any waters or water tank in a park, or

(j) carry, possess or use any spray cans of paint, or any boltcutters, oxy-acetylene equipment, angle grinder or other cutting equipment in a park, or

(k) possess or have custody of any key or other similar device that is capable of opening any lock or other device securing a gate or barricade located in a park, or

(l) discharge stormwater into a park.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause—

(a) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) if the act or omission occurred in or in relation to a ski resort area in Kosciuszko National Park and was necessary for the carrying out of—

(i) development in accordance with a development consent (within the meaning of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979), or

(ii) an activity, whether by or pursuant to an approval of a determining authority, if the determining authority has complied with Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(iii) a project approved under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(iv) State significant infrastructure approved under Division 5.2 of Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(c) if the act or omission occurred in or in relation to a place in Kosciuszko National Park (other than a ski resort area) and was necessary for the carrying out of development in accordance with a development consent that is taken to have been granted to Snowy Hydro Limited under section 41(4) of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997, or

(d) if the act or omission was authorised by or under Part 2 of the Rural Fires Act 1997, the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 or the State Emergency Service Act 1989 and was reasonably necessary in order to avoid a threat to life or property.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(h) if the substance or object referred to in that paragraph—

(a) was obtained by the person from a person authorised to sell such substances or objects or from an area outside a park, or

(b) is firewood—

(i) that has been provided at established visitor use areas in the park where the burning of fires is permitted, or

(ii) that comes from deadfalls of timber, if timber is not provided at established visitor use areas in the park.

(4) Subclause (3)(b)(ii) does not permit a person to collect deadfalls of timber for firewood in contravention of a notice (as referred to in clause 6) or an oral direction (as referred to in clause 7).

(5) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(j) or (k) merely because the person carries or possesses any object referred to in that subclause on a road traversing a park if the person does not stop in the park.

(6) For the purposes of subclause (1)(c), waste includes the following—

(a) rubbish and refuse,

(b) marine craft, aircraft and parts of them,

(c) household effects, appliances and materials,

(d) clothing,

(e) containers,

(f) agricultural, building, commercial and industrial materials,

(g) machinery, plant and equipment and parts of them,

(h) chemicals, minerals and metals,

(i) vegetable matter,

(j) stone, sand, shells, clay, earth and ash,

(k) radioactive material.

(7) In this clause—

divert includes extract water (whether by means of a pump or not) otherwise than pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, a water licence issued under Division 3 of Part 2 of the Water Act 1912 by a competent authority.

cl 13: Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[24] [25].

14 Protection of animals

14 Protection of animals

(1) A person must not in a park—

(a) carry, lay or set any trap, snare or poison, or drop from an aircraft or otherwise deposit any poison bait or poisonous chemical substance, or

(b) hunt, shoot, poison, net, spear, pursue, interfere with, injure, hurt, capture, destroy, trap or snare, or have in the person’s possession, an animal, or

(c) take any animal’s nest or egg, or interfere with any animal’s nest or egg or habitation or resting place or any beehive, or

(d) feed any animal.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person must not in a park or on any public or other road traversing a park—

(a) carry, possess or use a hunting collar (such as a spiked collar), a breast plate or tracking equipment for use on any dog, or

(b) have under the person’s control any dog on which a hunting collar (such as a spiked collar), a breast plate or tracking equipment is carried.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(4) A person does not commit an offence under this clause in relation to trapping if that trapping is authorised under or by the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

(5) In this clause, interfere with includes brand, chase, harass, herd, mark or tag.

15 Offensive conduct

15 Offensive conduct

(1) A person must not in a park—

(a) behave in a disorderly manner, or

(b) use insulting or offensive language, or

(c) commit an act of indecency, or

(d) use, or be affected by, any prohibited drug (within the meaning of the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985), or

(e) drive, ride, operate or use any machinery, plant, vehicle, vessel or aircraft (including any model vehicle, vessel or aircraft) in a manner likely to interfere with or cause a nuisance to any person or animal, or

(f) operate or use any radio, television, cassette player, compact disc player or other sound-generating device in a manner likely to interfere with or cause a nuisance to any person or animal.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person must not ride or use a skate board, roller skates, bicycle, scooter or other means of conveyance (other than a disability assistance aid) on a track, trail or way, or in an area, set aside in a park for pedestrian traffic only.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(e) or (f) or (2) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

16 Consuming alcohol in alcohol free areas

16 Consuming alcohol in alcohol free areas

(1) A person must not consume alcohol in a park, or in part of a park, in contravention of the terms of a notice erected in the park.

Maximum penalty—0.2 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

17 Lighting of fires

17 Lighting of fires

(1) A person must not in a park—

(a) light, maintain or use a fire—

(i) if there are fireplaces designated for that purpose by a park authority—elsewhere than in such a fireplace, or

(ii) if there are no fireplaces designated for that purpose—elsewhere than in a temporary fireplace situated at least 4.5 metres from any log or stump and at least 1.5 metres from any other flammable material, or

(iii) in any case—in contravention of a notice erected or displayed or given to a park user by a park authority regulating the use of fire in the park, or

(iv) when a total fire ban has been imposed under the Rural Fires Act 1997, or

(b) leave unattended, whether temporarily or otherwise—

(i) any fire in a fireplace designated for that purpose by a park authority, or

(ii) any fire in any other place, or

(c) fail to call for help to control or extinguish a fire that the person has lit, maintained or used and that is beyond the person’s power to control or extinguish, or

(d) handle any flammable substance (such as petrol, matches or cigarettes) in a manner that is likely to cause a fire in the park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(a)(iv) by doing anything authorised by or under the Rural Fires Act 1997.

18 Smoking

18 Smoking

(1) A person must not smoke in a park.

Maximum penalty—5 penalty units.

(2) This clause does not apply to a cave in a park.

Note.

Clause 27(2)(e) creates an offence of smoking in a cave.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under this clause—

(a) if a person smokes in an accommodation area, where smoking is not otherwise prohibited, or

(b) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(4) In this clause—

accommodation area means an area used for residential accommodation or accommodation for visitors and tourists (other than accommodation for visitors and tourists that is managed by, or on behalf of, the National Parks and Wildlife Service) on land the subject of a lease or licence granted under the Act.

19 Cultural heritage

19 Cultural heritage

(1) A person must not deposit or leave any bone, shell, charcoal, stone or wood within an Aboriginal area or Aboriginal place.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person must not within any Aboriginal area or Aboriginal place have in the person’s possession—

(a) any chalk, paint or other colouring substance, matter or thing, or

(b) any sieve, spade, shovel, pitchfork, mattock, pick, bar, axe, chisel, hammer or similar implement.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A person must not in a park—

(a) use any metal detector or other apparatus for detecting any metal or metal object, or

(b) touch or interfere with or do anything that may cause or assist the mutilation or destruction of any Aboriginal object, or

(c) take any rubbing, latex peel or impression by whatever means of any Aboriginal object, or

(d) interfere with or remove or assist in the removal of any deposit, object or material evidence relating to the settlement or occupation of New South Wales or a part of New South Wales (not being settlement or occupation by Aboriginal people) if the deposit, object or material evidence is more than 25 years old at the date of the interference or removal, or

(e) deposit or leave any Aboriginal object in a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(4) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(5) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (3)(d) if the interference or removal occurred in a ski resort area in Kosciuszko National Park and was necessary for the carrying out of—

(a) development in accordance with a development consent (within the meaning of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979), or

(b) an activity, whether by or pursuant to an approval of a determining authority, if the determining authority has complied with Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

(6) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (3)(d) if the interference or removal occurred in a place in Kosciuszko National Park (other than a ski resort area) and was necessary for the carrying out of development in accordance with a development consent that is taken to have been granted to Snowy Hydro Limited under section 41(4) of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997.

20 Erection and occupation of structures

20 Erection and occupation of structures

(1) A person must not—

(a) erect, alter, extend or occupy any building in a park, or

(b) install, use or occupy a moveable dwelling in a park, or

(c) construct, operate or use any structure, installation, engineering work, plant, equipment, amusement device, fixture or improvement in a park, or

(d) erect a hoarding or notice, or exhibit any commercial or political advertising matter, sign, bill or poster, in a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done—

(a) with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) if the act or omission occurred in or in relation to a ski resort area in Kosciuszko National Park and was necessary for the carrying out of—

(i) development in accordance with a development consent (within the meaning of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979), or

(ii) an activity, whether by or pursuant to an approval of a determining authority, if the determining authority has complied with Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(iii) a project approved under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(iv) State significant infrastructure approved under Division 5.2 of Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(c) if the act or omission occurred in or in relation to a place in Kosciuszko National Park (other than a ski resort area) and was necessary for the carrying out of development in accordance with a development consent that is taken to have been granted to Snowy Hydro Limited under section 41(4) of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(b) if the person camps in a manner that is not prohibited by clause 12.

(4) In this clause, moveable dwelling means any tent or any caravan or other van or other portable device (whether on wheels or not), used for human habitation.

21 Protection of vegetation

21 Protection of vegetation

(1) A person must not—

(a) gather, pluck, pull up, poison, take, dig up, cut, fell, remove, damage or destroy any vegetation in a park, or

(b) have any vegetation in the person’s possession in a park, whether for removal or otherwise, or

(c) introduce any vegetation into a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done—

(a) with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) if the act or omission occurred in or in relation to a ski resort area in Kosciuszko National Park and was necessary for the carrying out of—

(i) development in accordance with a development consent (within the meaning of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979), or

(ii) an activity, whether by or pursuant to an approval of a determining authority, if the determining authority has complied with Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(iii) a project approved under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(iv) State significant infrastructure approved under Division 5.2 of Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(c) if the act or omission occurred in or in relation to a place in Kosciuszko National Park (other than a ski resort area) and was necessary for the carrying out of development in accordance with a development consent that is taken to have been granted to Snowy Hydro Limited under section 41(4) of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997, or

(d) if the act or omission was authorised by or under Part 2 of the Rural Fires Act 1997, the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 or the State Emergency Service Act 1989 and was reasonably necessary in order to avoid a threat to life or property.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(b) if the person has in the person’s possession vegetation (including firewood) that was lawfully obtained from outside the park.

(4) A person does not commit an offence under this clause by using firewood—

(a) that has been provided at established visitor use areas in the park where the burning of fires is permitted, or

(b) that comes from deadfalls of timber, if timber is not provided at established visitor use areas in the park.

(5) Subclause (4)(b) does not permit a person to collect or use deadfalls of timber for firewood in contravention of a notice (as referred to in clause 6) or an oral direction (as referred to in clause 7).

(6) In this clause—

vegetation means the whole or part of any tree, shrub, fern, creeper, vine, palm, plant or seed, whether alive or dead.

22 Beehives

22 Beehives

(1) A person must not remove any beehive from, or place any beehive in, a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

23 Weapons

23 Weapons

(1) A person must not in a park—

(a) carry or discharge or have in the person’s possession any firearm, or imitation firearm, within the meaning of the Firearms Act 1996 or prohibited weapon within the meaning of the Weapons Prohibition Act 1998, or

(b) carry or discharge or have in the person’s possession any airgun, speargun or other lethal weapon, or

(c) carry or use or have in the person’s possession any explosive, flare or firework, or

(d) carry or use or have in the person’s possession any ammunition, or

(e) throw or propel by any means any object likely to cause damage or injury to any person, animal or thing, or

(f) without reasonable excuse, carry, use, possess or have custody of a knife.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(3) For the purposes of subclause (1)(a) and (d), a person does not commit an offence if the person is a police officer acting—

(a) in the course of the person’s duties or in accordance with any guidelines issued by the Commissioner of Police with respect to the possession of service firearms by off-duty police officers, and

(b) in accordance with the New South Wales Police Handbook.

(4) For the purposes of subclause (1)(f), a person has a reasonable excuse to carry, use, possess or have custody of a knife if—

(a) the possession or custody is reasonably necessary in all the circumstances for any of the following—

(i) the preparation or consumption of food or drink,

(ii) participation in a lawful entertainment, recreation or sport,

(iii) the wearing of an official uniform, or

(b) the possession or custody is reasonably necessary in the circumstances during travel to or from or incidental to an activity referred to in paragraph (a).

(5) For the purposes of subclause (1)(f), it is not a reasonable excuse for a person to carry, use, possess or have custody of a knife solely for the purpose of self-defence or the defence of another person.

(6) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(b) if the person carries or possesses an unloaded speargun in a park, unless a plan of management for a park or a notice erected in the park or given to the person prohibits the carrying or possession of a speargun (whether loaded or unloaded) in a park or any part of the park.

(7) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (1)(c) if the flare is carried in a boat as a part of the boat’s safety equipment as required by or under any other Act or when used as a distress signal.

(8) In this clause, unloaded speargun means—

(a) an assembled rubber powered speargun that does not have the shaft engaged in the trigger mechanism and the rubbers stretched and engaged in the shaft, or

(b) in the case of a pneumatic, spring or gas powered speargun—one that does not have the spear shaft located within the barrel of the speargun, or

(c) a disassembled speargun.

24 Commercial activities

24 Commercial activities

(1) A person must not in a park—

(a) sell or hire, attempt to sell or hire, expose for sale or hire or solicit for sale or hire any article, thing or service to any person, or

(b) conduct, or assist in the conduct of, any amusement, entertainment, instruction, performance or activity for money or other consideration of any kind, or

(c) compete with or hinder the commercial operations of any person, business or corporate body possessing a lease, licence, occupancy or franchise from the Minister or the Secretary for a specific purpose or purposes, or

(d) take any photograph, video, movie or television film for sale, hire or profit.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

25 Sporting, recreational and other activities

25 Sporting, recreational and other activities

(1) A person must not in a park—

(a) organise, conduct or take part in any sporting activity that forms part of an organised competition or tournament, or

(b) organise, attend or participate in any concert, public meeting, function, demonstration, group activity or gathering (a prohibited event) involving more than 40 persons or such other number of persons as is stated in a plan of management for the park, or stated in a notice erected in the park or given to a park user, whichever is the lesser, or

(c) organise, attend or engage in any manoeuvre (whether of a military, naval, aerial nature or otherwise), any course of training or any similar activity, or

(d) organise or engage in any activity or recreational pursuit that involves risking the safety of the person or the safety of other persons or damaging the environment.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subclause (1)(d), the activities and recreational pursuits to which that paragraph applies include abseiling, base jumping, bungy jumping, rock climbing, parachuting, canyoning, white water boating, paragliding, parasailing and hang gliding. However, the activities and recreational pursuits to which subclause (1)(d) applies do not include caving and cave diving.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under this clause—

(a) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) if a plan of management for a park makes provision for the undertaking of an activity in the park, the person undertakes the activity in the park in accordance with the plan of management.

(4) Despite subclause (3)(b), a person must not undertake an activity in a park if a notice erected in the park or given to the person prohibits the undertaking of the activity.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(5) In this clause—

organise includes possessing or leaving in a park equipment related to a sporting activity, prohibited event, manoeuvre, course of training, activity or recreational pursuit.

Examples—

sound and audio visual equipment, generators, marquees and temporary fencing

cl 25: Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[26]–[29].

26 Research activities

26 Research activities

(1) A person must not carry out any kind of research in a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

26A Installation of recording devices—the Act, s 155(2)(b)

26A Installation of recording devices—the Act, s 155(2)(b)

(1) A person must not—

(a) install a recording device in a park, or

(b) leave a recording device unattended in a park, or

(c) arrange for another person to—

(i) install a recording device in a park, or

(ii) leave a recording device unattended in a park.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(2) A person does not commit an offence under this clause for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject.

(3) In this clause—

recording device means a device for recording video, images or audio.

cl 26A: Ins 2025 (329), Sch 1[30].

27 Caves

27 Caves

(1) A person must not enter or remain in a karst cave in a park.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person must not in a park—

(a) exhibit a number or other identifying mark in or near a cave in a manner that suggests that the number or mark has been allocated to identify the cave, or

(b) carry out any excavation, or use any explosive, in or in the vicinity of a cave, or

(c) use any string or other thing for the purpose of laying a track in a cave, or

(d) interfere with in a cave or remove from a cave—

(i) any rocks, soil, sand, stone or other similar substances, or

(ii) any flora or fauna, or

(iii) any equipment (other than equipment carried into the cave by the person), or

(iv) any guano, bones or fossil, or

(e) smoke in a cave, or

(f) light a fire in a cave, or

(g) leave any equipment in a cave whether or not the person intends to return to the cave, or

(h) leave the person’s urine or faeces in a cave, or

(i) damage any speleothems in a cave, or

(j) vandalise any cave, or

(k) interfere with, dig in or disturb a cave or remove from a cave any Aboriginal objects, or

(l) obstruct, erect a fence or gate in, fill or alter the entrance or passage of a cave, or

(m) have in the person’s possession in a cave any sieve, spade, shovel, fork, mattock, pick, bar, axe, chisel, hammer or similar implement, or

(n) in a cave, use any fuel stove, combustion engine, flare, carbide lamp, candle or welding equipment.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under this clause—

(a) for anything done or omitted to be done with the consent of a park authority and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) if a plan of management for a park makes provision for the undertaking of an activity in the park, the person undertakes the activity in the park in accordance with the plan of management.

(4) Despite subclause (3)(b), a person must not undertake an activity in a park if a notice erected in the park or given to the person prohibits the undertaking of the activity.

(5) A person does not commit an offence under subclause (2)(c) if the person lays a track as a temporary safety or conservation measure and either—

(a) removes the track when the person leaves the cave, or

(b) within 7 days of leaving the cave, orally or in writing notifies the park authority of the laying of the track.

(6) A park authority notified by a person under subclause (5)(b) of the laying of a track may orally or in writing direct the person to remove the track within a period specified in the direction.

(7) A person must comply with a direction given under subclause (6) within the period specified in the direction.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(8) In this clause—

cave means any naturally occurring void, cavity, recess or system of interconnected passages, that is—

(a) beneath the surface of the earth or within a cliff or ledge, and

(b) large enough to permit a person to enter, whether or not the entrance is naturally formed or human made, and

(c) wholly or substantially roofed.

karst cave means a cave that has developed in soluble rock (typically limestone dolomite, marble and gypsum) through the processes of solution, abrasion or collapse.

28 Interference with park management

28 Interference with park management

A person must not—

(a) destroy, damage or remove any thing that is being used or intended to be used by the park authority for the suppression or destruction of any animals in a park, or

(b) interfere with any thing that is being used or intended to be used by the park authority for the suppression or destruction of any animals in a park in a manner that is likely to impair its effectiveness, or

(c) remove, relocate, damage, destroy or obscure by any means any sign or notice that has been erected or displayed in a park by a park authority or that has been erected or displayed in a park with the consent of the park authority, or

(d) interfere with or obstruct any action taken by a park authority for the purpose of the care, control and management of the park, or

(e) attempt to do any of the things referred to in paragraphs (a)–(d).

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

cl 28: Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[31].

29 Use of snow chains in Kosciuszko National Park

29 Use of snow chains in Kosciuszko National Park

(1) A person travelling by motor vehicle on any designated snow/ice risk road within Kosciuszko National Park at any time on or after 1 June and before 11 October in any year must carry snow chains suitable for use on the tyres of the motor vehicle.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person travelling by motor vehicle within Kosciuszko National Park on or after 1 June and before 11 October in any year must use snow chains on the tyres of the motor vehicle when directed to do so by a designated officer or by a notice erected in the park or given to the park user.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) In this clause—

designated officer, in relation to a park, means—

(a) a national parks officer, or

(b) a person who is authorised by the park authority to exercise the powers conferred by this clause, or

(c) a police officer.

designated snow/ice risk road means a road on which there is a sign, erected by or on behalf of the Secretary, requiring snow chains to be carried on the road.

motor vehicle does not include a four-wheel drive vehicle.

Division 4 Mooring vessels within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Division 4 Mooring vessels within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

30 Definitions

30 Definitions

In this Division—

Cowan Water includes all tributaries of Cowan Water within the boundaries of the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.

licence means a licence issued by the Minister or Secretary to permit occupation for the purpose of placing a mooring.

public mooring means a mooring set up by the Secretary.

set up a mooring includes erect, construct or lay down a mooring.

vessel means any boat, yacht, cruiser, houseboat, barge or other floating craft used for the conveyance of persons or things that has been, or is required to be, registered by the relevant authority, but does not include a raft, kayak, canoe, dinghy or other small floatation device.

31 Setting up of moorings

31 Setting up of moorings

(1) The Secretary may grant licences for marinas and moorings in Cowan Water, subject to any terms and conditions that may be imposed by the Secretary.

(2) The Secretary may revoke, or vary the terms of, any such licence.

(3) Except as authorised by a licence, a person must not set up a marina or mooring in Cowan Water.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(4) The Secretary may direct a person who has set up or used an unlicensed marina or mooring to remove the marina or mooring.

(5) Such a direction may be given to the person to whom it is addressed personally or by leaving it on, or attaching it to, the marina or mooring.

(6) A person to whom such a direction is given must not fail to comply with the direction.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(7) The Secretary may remove from Cowan Water—

(a) any unlicensed mooring or marina, or

(b) any mooring or marina that has been abandoned or has become submerged, come adrift or fallen into a state of disrepair, or

(c) any part of a mooring or marina that has become separated from the mooring or marina or that constitutes, in the opinion of the Secretary, a danger, hazard, impediment or menace to the use of Cowan Water.

(8) The Secretary may, in any court of competent jurisdiction, recover the cost and expenses—

(a) incurred as a result of a removal authorised by subclause (7)(a)—from the person who set up the unlicensed mooring or marina, or

(b) incurred as a result of a removal authorised by subclause (7)(b) or (c)—from the current licensee or (if the licence is no longer in force) the previous licensee.

(9) This clause does not apply to a public mooring.

(10) For the purposes of this clause, a marina or mooring is unlicensed if—

(a) no licence has been issued in relation to it, or

(b) a licence has been issued in relation to it subject to terms and conditions that have not been met.

32 Mooring of vessels

32 Mooring of vessels

(1) A person must not moor a vessel on any part of Cowan Water otherwise than—

(a) at a public mooring, or

(b) at a mooring in respect of which the person—

(i) is the licensee, or

(ii) is the hirer from the licensee of the mooring to which the licence relates, or

(iii) has the consent of the licensee or hirer to use the mooring.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(2) A person must not moor a vessel at a public mooring in Cowan Water for more than 24 hours at any one time.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) A person must not moor at any mooring (not being a mooring forming part of a marina) in Cowan Water—

(a) more than one vessel (whether or not secured directly to the mooring or to another vessel secured to the mooring), or

(b) any vessel in contravention of the terms and conditions of the licence in respect of the mooring.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(4) The holder of a licence in respect of a marina must not moor at a mooring forming part of the marina in Cowan Water—

(a) more than one vessel (whether or not secured directly to the mooring or to another vessel secured to the mooring), or

(b) any vessel in contravention of the terms and conditions of the licence in respect of the marina.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(5) A designated officer may direct a person to remove a vessel from a mooring if the vessel is moored in contravention of this clause.

(6) A person must not, without reasonable excuse, fail to comply with a direction given under subclause (5).

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(7) In this clause—

designated officer means—

(a) a national parks officer, or

(b) a person who is authorised by the park authority for Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to exercise the powers conferred by this clause, or

(c) a police officer.

33 Misrepresentation of authority to moor vessel

33 Misrepresentation of authority to moor vessel

A person must not falsely represent (by the display of numbers or names, the production of documents or otherwise) that the person is authorised to moor a vessel, or to permit other persons to moor vessels, in Cowan Water.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

Division 5 Miscellaneous

Division 5 Miscellaneous

34 Consent of park authority

34 Consent of park authority

The consent of a park authority under this Part may be given—

(a) generally or in a particular case, and

(b) unconditionally or subject to conditions, and

(c) by means of a written statement, a notice referred to in clause 6, or in the form of a permit, licence, approval or other form of authorisation.

35 Exercise of park authority’s functions

35 Exercise of park authority’s functions

Any function that is conferred on a park authority by this Part may be exercised by the authority or by any person authorised by the authority to exercise that function.

35A Oral directions

35A Oral directions

A person given an oral direction under this part (a recipient) is not guilty of an offence of contravening the direction unless it is established that the person who gave the direction warned the recipient that a failure to comply with the direction is an offence.

cl 35A: Ins 2025 (329), Sch 1[32].

36 Defences

36 Defences

A person does not commit an offence under this Part for anything done or omitted to be done—

(a) by a member of staff of a park authority in the exercise of the staff member’s employment, or

(b) under the oral or written direction of a park authority.

37 Second and subsequent offences

37 Second and subsequent offences

(1) A person who commits (or is, by virtue of section 159 of the Act, guilty of) a second or subsequent offence under this Part is liable to be excluded from a park by the park authority or the Secretary for any period of time determined by the park authority or the Secretary.

(2) For the purpose of this clause, a person is taken to have committed (or to be guilty of) an offence under this Part if—

(a) a court convicts the person of the offence, or

(b) a court makes an order under section 10 of the Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Act 1999 or section 33(1)(a) of the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 in respect of the person in relation to the offence, or

(c) a penalty notice has been issued in respect of an offence and the penalty notice amount has been paid.

(3) A person who has been excluded from a park under this clause must not re-enter the park before the period of exclusion ends.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(4) This clause does not apply to an offence under clause 51.

cl 37: Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[33] [34].

Part 3 Public health in Kosciuszko National Park

Part 3 Public health in Kosciuszko National Park

38 Definitions

38 Definitions

In this Part—

premises means premises in Kosciuszko National Park.

the park means Kosciuszko National Park.

39 Object of Part

39 Object of Part

(1) The object of this Part is to confer or impose on the Secretary, under section 155A of the Act, certain functions relating to the health of the public in the park.

(2) The functions concerned are, in accordance with section 155A of the Act, the same (but for being modified by this Part) as certain functions conferred or imposed on a council constituted by the Local Government Act 1993 in relation to the health of the public in its area.

40 Orders requiring the preservation of healthy conditions in the park

40 Orders requiring the preservation of healthy conditions in the park

(1) The Secretary may, if any premises, vehicle or article in the park used for the manufacture, preparation, storage, sale or transportation of food to the public are not in a clean or sanitary condition, order the occupier of the premises, or the owner or operator of the vehicle or article, to put the premises, vehicle or article into a clean or sanitary condition.

(2) The Secretary may, if premises are not in a safe or healthy condition, order the occupier of the premises to do or refrain from doing all things that are specified in the order to ensure that the premises are placed or kept in a safe or healthy condition.

(3) The Secretary may, if waste (other than waste that is dealt with under the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001) is present or generated on premises and it is not being satisfactorily dealt with, order the occupier of the premises, or the person responsible for the waste or for any receptacle or container in which the waste is contained, to store, treat, process, collect, remove, dispose of or destroy the waste in the manner specified in the order.

(4) The Secretary may, if premises are not connected to any available water supply or sewerage system, order the occupier of the premises to connect the premises to an available water supply and sewerage system by a date specified in the order.

(5) The Secretary may, if in the opinion of the Secretary it is necessary for the purpose of protecting the health of the public in the park, order the occupier of premises not to use or permit the use of a human waste storage facility on the premises after a date specified in the order.

(6) A person to whom an order under this clause is given must not fail to comply with the order.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

41 Orders requiring the doing of things to or on premises

41 Orders requiring the doing of things to or on premises

(1) The Secretary may, if it is necessary or expedient to do so in the interests of public health, order the occupier of premises to repair or make structural alterations to the premises (including the renewal or repair of a roof) or to erect a fence between the land on which the premises are located and an adjoining place that is open to the public.

(2) A person to whom an order under this clause is given must not fail to comply with the order.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

42 Orders relating to premises used for shared accommodation

42 Orders relating to premises used for shared accommodation

(1) The Secretary may, if premises used for shared accommodation do not comply with the standards set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government (General) Regulation 2005, order the occupier of the premises to take the action that is necessary to bring the premises into compliance with those standards.

(2) A person to whom an order under this clause is given must not fail to comply with the order.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

43 Orders requiring that premises not be used in specified ways

43 Orders requiring that premises not be used in specified ways

(1) The Secretary may, if an activity conducted on premises constitutes or is likely to constitute a threat to the health of the public in the park, order the person apparently engaged in promoting, conducting or carrying out the activity not to conduct, or to cease conducting, the activity.

(2) A person to whom an order under this clause is given must not fail to comply with the order.

Maximum penalty—30 penalty units.

(3) If the person fails to comply with the order, the Secretary may—

(a) order the person to cease the use of the premises or to evacuate the premises, and

(b) order any other person or persons to leave the premises or not to enter the premises.

44 Procedures to be observed before giving orders and provisions relating to orders generally

44 Procedures to be observed before giving orders and provisions relating to orders generally

(1) Sections 129, 130, 132–137, 139–141, 143–148, 152 and 153(1) of the Local Government Act 1993 apply in relation to orders given by the Secretary under clauses 40–43 in the same way as they apply to orders given by a council constituted under that Act.

(2) Accordingly, references in those sections to a council are, for the purposes of this clause, to be read as references to the Secretary.

45 Provision of services relating to health of the public in the park

45 Provision of services relating to health of the public in the park

(1) The Secretary may provide public health services and facilities, and carry out activities relating to public health, appropriate to the needs of the public in the park.

(2) In particular, the Secretary may provide for, or enter into arrangements for, the collection, removal and treatment of garbage, rubbish, refuse or other forms of waste from premises in the park.

(3) The Secretary may, in the interests of the health of the public in the park and in whatever manner the Secretary thinks fit—

(a) maintain and regulate depots in the park for the disposal and destruction of garbage, rubbish, refuse or other forms of waste, and

(b) control and regulate the depositing on land in the park of any material likely to give rise to a condition that will endanger public health.

(4) The Secretary may give directions to ensure that any requirement imposed by the Secretary in connection with the Secretary’s functions under this clause is complied with.

46 Power of entry and inspection

46 Power of entry and inspection

(1) The Secretary may, in exercising the Secretary’s functions under this Part, exercise the same functions as a council may exercise under Part 2 of Chapter 8 of the Local Government Act 1993 for the purpose of enabling the council to exercise its functions relating to public health under that Act.

(2) Accordingly, references in that Part to a council are, for the purposes of this clause, to be read as references to the Secretary, and the reference in section 199(2)(f) of that Act to the general manager is to be read as a reference to the Secretary.

47 Functions relating to Public Health Act 2010

47 Functions relating to Public Health Act 2010

The Secretary may exercise the following functions in relation to the park—

(a) the functions of a local government authority under Part 9 of the Public Health Act 2010 to appoint a member of staff of the Department to exercise the functions of an authorised officer under—

(i) Divisions 2–5 of Part 3 of that Act, and

(ii) Part 8 of that Act, and

(iii) Parts 2–4 and 9 and Schedules 1 and 4 to the Public Health Regulation 2012, and

(b) the functions of a local government authority under Part 3 of the Public Health Act 2010.

cl 47: Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[22].

Part 4 Enforcement of obligations of Snowy Hydro Company

Part 4 Enforcement of obligations of Snowy Hydro Company

48 Definitions

48 Definitions

In this Part—

Company means—

(a) subject to paragraph (b), Snowy Hydro Limited (ACN 090 574 431), or

(b) if the Snowy park lease is transferred to another body—that other body.

Snowy Management Plan means a plan of management under the Act for Kosciuszko National Park that deals with the activities of the Company within that Park in accordance with section 38 of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997.

Snowy park lease means the Snowy park lease within the meaning of section 37 of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997 (and includes any Snowy 2.0 lease within the meaning of section 37A of that Act).

49 Company to comply with Snowy Management Plan

49 Company to comply with Snowy Management Plan

(1) The Company is required to comply with the obligations imposed on the Company under the Snowy Management Plan.

(2) For the purposes of this Part, the obligations of the Company under the Snowy Management Plan include the obligations imposed on the Company by any environment management plan prepared under the Snowy Management Plan and approved by the Secretary.

50 Notice to comply with Snowy Management Plan

50 Notice to comply with Snowy Management Plan

(1) If the Company fails to comply with any of its obligations under the Snowy Management Plan, the Secretary may, by written notice served on the Company, direct the Company to comply with its obligations.

(2) A notice under this clause must set out the obligations of the Company that have not been complied with, and may also do any of the following—

(a) specify a time within which the obligations are to be complied with,

(b) require the Company to take the action specified in the notice in order to comply with the obligations,

(c) require the Company to cease the action specified in the notice that has resulted in the Company not complying with its obligations,

(d) if the failure of the Company to comply with its obligations has caused damage to the Kosciuszko National Park—require the Company to take the actions specified in the notice to remedy the damage.

(3) The Secretary is required to consult the Environment Protection Authority before serving a notice under this clause in respect of a scheduled activity within the meaning of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997, unless the Secretary is of the opinion that the notice is required to be served as a matter of urgency.

(4) A notice under this clause may be amended or revoked by a subsequent notice served on the Company.

51 Failure to comply with notice

51 Failure to comply with notice

The Company is guilty of an offence if it fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a notice under clause 50.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units and 2 penalty units for each day the offence continues.

52 Secretary may carry out works

52 Secretary may carry out works

(1) If the Company fails to comply with a requirement of a notice under clause 50 to carry out works, the Secretary may carry out those works.

(2) The Secretary may recover from the Company as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction the reasonable costs of carrying out those works if the Company failed, without reasonable excuse, to carry out those works in accordance with the notice.

Part 5 Aboriginal land, objects and places and exemptions for Aboriginal people

Part 5 Aboriginal land, objects and places and exemptions for Aboriginal people

53 Application of Division

53 Application of Division

This Division only applies to development by the Aboriginal Land Council, the Local Aboriginal Land Council, the Aboriginal owners or the board of management for the land concerned.

54 Use of Mutawintji land for certain community development purposes

54 Use of Mutawintji land for certain community development purposes

For the Act, section 72AB(5), in respect of Mutawintji land (including Mutawintji Historic Site, Mutawintji National Park, Mutawintji Nature Reserve and Mutawintji State Conservation Area), development for the purpose of the following facilities that are for the use (but not necessarily the exclusive use) of Aboriginal owners is prescribed—

(a) residential housing facilities (whether for permanent or temporary accommodation),

(b) camping facilities,

(c) meeting facilities,

(d) administration facilities,

(e) tourism facilities,

(f) recreation facilities,

(g) cultural facilities,

(h) cemeteries,

(i) facilities for the following services—

(i) utilities (energy, water and waste management),

(ii) health services,

(iii) telecommunications,

(iv) roads, tracks and airstrips,

(j) ancillary facilities.

cl 54: Am 2021 (25), Sch 1[7]; 2025 (329), Sch 1[35].

55 Use of other land for certain community development purposes

55 Use of other land for certain community development purposes

(1) For the Act, section 72AB(5), in respect of any land reserved under Part 4A of the Act (other than land referred to in clause 54), development for the purpose of the following activities or facilities is prescribed—

(a) recreation activities or facilities,

(b) cultural activities or facilities,

(c) general park activities or facilities,

(d) other activities or facilities that are consistent with any relevant lease under Part 4A of the Act and will improve the capacity of the following persons to participate in the management of the land concerned—

(i) the Aboriginal owners of the land,

(ii) traditional owners of the land,

(iii) members of the Local Aboriginal Land Council for the land.

(2) In this clause—

traditional owners, in relation to land, means those persons who have an association with the cultural area within which the land is situated that derives from the traditions, observances, customs, beliefs or history of the original Aboriginal inhabitants of the cultural area.

cl 55: Am 2025 (329), Sch 1[35].

56 Transfer of Aboriginal objects

56 Transfer of Aboriginal objects

For the purposes of section 85A(1)(c) of the Act, the following are prescribed—

(a) an Aboriginal person,

(b) an organisation representing Aboriginal people.

57 Compliance with codes of practice and other prescribed documents to constitute defence of due diligence to the offence of harming Aboriginal objects

57 Compliance with codes of practice and other prescribed documents to constitute defence of due diligence to the offence of harming Aboriginal objects

For the purposes of section 87(3) of the Act, compliance with any of the following codes of practice and documents (when undertaking an activity to which the code or document applies) is taken for the purposes of section 87(2) of the Act to constitute due diligence in determining whether the act or omission constituting the alleged offence would harm an Aboriginal object—

(a) the Due Diligence Code of Practice for the Protection of Aboriginal Objects in New South Wales published by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water and dated 13 September 2010,

(b) the Plantations and Reafforestation Code (being the Appendix to the Plantations and Reafforestation (Code) Regulation 2001),

(c) private native forestry codes of practice made under Division 2 of Part 5B of the Local Land Services Act 2013,

(d) the NSW Minerals Industry Due Diligence Code of Practice for the Protection of Aboriginal Objects published by NSW Minerals Council Ltd and dated 13 September 2010,

(e) the Aboriginal Objects Due Diligence Code for Plantation Officers Administering the Plantations and Reafforestation (Code) Regulation 2001 published by the Department of Industry and Investment and dated 13 September 2010,

(f) the Operational Guidelines for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Management published by Forests NSW and dated 13 September 2010.

58 Defence of low impact acts or omissions to the offence of harming Aboriginal objects

58 Defence of low impact acts or omissions to the offence of harming Aboriginal objects

(1) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence under section 86(2) of the Act, if the defendant establishes that the act or omission concerned—

(a) was maintenance work of the following kind on land that has been disturbed—

(i) maintenance of existing roads, fire and other trails and tracks,

(ii) maintenance of existing utilities and other similar services (such as above or below ground electrical infrastructure, water or sewerage pipelines), or

(b) was farming and land management work of the following kind on land that has been disturbed—

(i) cropping and leaving paddocks fallow,

(ii) the construction of water storage works (such as farm dams or water tanks),

(iii) the construction of fences,

(iv) the construction of irrigation infrastructure, ground water bores or flood mitigation works,

(v) the construction of erosion control or soil conservation works (such as contour banks), or

(c) was farming and land management work that involved the maintenance of the following existing infrastructure—

(i) grain, fibre or fertiliser storage areas,

(ii) water storage works (such as farm dams or water tanks),

(iii) irrigation infrastructure, ground water bores or flood mitigation works,

(iv) fences,

(v) erosion control or soil conservation works (such as contour banks), or

(d) was the grazing of animals, or

(e) was an activity on land that has been disturbed that comprises exempt development or was the subject of a complying development certificate issued under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, or

(f) was mining exploration work of the following kind on land that has been disturbed—

(i) costeaning,

(ii) bulk sampling,

(iii) drilling, or

(g) was work of the following kind—

(i) geological mapping,

(ii) surface geophysical surveys (including gravity surveys, radiometric surveys, magnetic surveys and electrical surveys), but not including seismic surveys,

(iii) sub-surface geophysical surveys that involve downhole logging,

(iv) sampling and coring using hand-held equipment, except where carried out as part of an archaeological investigation, or

Note.

Clause 5 of this Regulation provides that an act carried out in accordance with the Code of Practice for Archaeological Investigation of Aboriginal Objects in New South Wales is excluded from the meaning of harm an object or place in the Act.

(h) was the removal of isolated, dead or dying vegetation, but only if there is minimal disturbance to the surrounding ground surface, or

(i) was work of the following kind on land that has been disturbed—

(i) seismic surveying,

(ii) the construction and maintenance of groundwater monitoring bores, or

(j) was environmental rehabilitation work, including temporary silt fencing, tree planting, bush regeneration and weed removal, but not including erosion control or soil conservation works (such as contour banks).

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply in relation to harm to an Aboriginal culturally modified tree.

(3) In this clause, Aboriginal culturally modified tree means a tree that, before or concurrent with (or both) the occupation of the area in which the tree is located by a person who is not an Aboriginal person, has been scarred, carved or modified by an Aboriginal person by—

(a) the deliberate removal, by traditional methods, of bark or wood from the tree, or

(b) the deliberate modification, by traditional methods, of the wood of the tree.

(4) For the purposes of this clause, land is disturbed if it has been the subject of a human activity that has changed the land’s surface, being changes that remain clear and observable.

Note.

Examples of activities that may have disturbed land include the following—

(a) soil ploughing,

(b) construction of rural infrastructure (such as dams and fences),

(c) construction of roads, trails and tracks (including fire trails and tracks and walking tracks),

(d) clearing of vegetation,

(e) construction of buildings and the erection of other structures,

(f) construction or installation of utilities and other similar services (such as above or below ground electrical infrastructure, water or sewerage pipelines, stormwater drainage and other similar infrastructure),

(g) substantial grazing involving the construction of rural infrastructure,

(h) construction of earthworks associated with any thing referred to in paragraphs (a)–(g).

59 Notification of sites of Aboriginal objects

59 Notification of sites of Aboriginal objects

For the purposes of section 89A of the Act, the prescribed manner of notifying the Secretary of the location of an Aboriginal object is by means of a written notice in a form approved by the Secretary.

cl 59: Am 2021 (25), Sch 1[8]; 2022 No 59, Sch 3.47[1].

60 Aboriginal heritage impact permit—requirement for consultation process

60 Aboriginal heritage impact permit—requirement for consultation process

(1) General obligation to consult Before making an application for the issue of an Aboriginal heritage impact permit, the proposed applicant must carry out an Aboriginal community consultation process in accordance with this clause.

(2) Notification of Aboriginal persons—where no relevant determination of native title The proposed applicant must (except in circumstances referred to in subclause (3))—

(a) ascertain from the following bodies or persons the names of any Aboriginal persons who may hold knowledge relevant to any relevant Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal places—

(i) the Department,

(ii) the relevant Local Aboriginal Land Council,

(iii) the Registrar appointed under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983,

(iv) the relevant local council,

(v) the National Native Title Tribunal,

(vi) NTSCORP Limited (ACN 098 971 209),

(vii) Local Land Services, and

(b) give the Aboriginal persons whose names were ascertained under paragraph (a) notice of the proposed activity that may be the subject of the application, and

(c) cause notice of the proposed activity to be published in a local newspaper circulating generally in the area of the land on or in which the proposed activity is to be carried out.

(3) Notification of Aboriginal persons—where relevant native title determined to exist If an approved determination of native title that native title exists in relation to the land on or in which the proposed activity that may be the subject of such an application is to be carried out, the proposed applicant must give notice of that proposed activity to—

(a) the registered native title body corporate for that land, or

(b) if no such body corporate exists, the native title holders of that land.

(4) Contents of notice A notice referred to in subclause (2)(b) and (c) and (3) must contain the following—

(a) the name and contact details of the proposed applicant,

(b) a brief overview of the proposed activity that may be the subject of an application for an Aboriginal heritage impact permit, including the location of the proposed activity,

(c) an invitation to Aboriginal people who hold knowledge relevant to determining the cultural heritage significance of Aboriginal objects and Aboriginal places in the area in which the proposed activity is to occur to register an interest in a process of community consultation with the proposed applicant regarding the proposed activity,

(d) a statement that the purpose of community consultation with Aboriginal people is to assist the proposed applicant in the preparation of an application for an Aboriginal heritage impact permit and to assist the Secretary in the Secretary’s consideration and determination of the application,

(e) a closing date for the registration of such interests (being a date that is at least 14 days after the date the notice was given or published).

(5) Registering interested Aboriginal parties and providing them with information The proposed applicant must, within 28 days after the closing date for the registration of interests—

(a) make a record of the names of each Aboriginal person who registered such an interest (registered Aboriginal party), and

(b) forward a copy of that record to the Department and the relevant Local Aboriginal Land Council, and

(c) provide each registered Aboriginal party with detailed information regarding the activity that may be the subject of the proposed application.

(6) Consultation on proposed methodology of cultural heritage assessment report The proposed applicant must—

(a) provide the registered Aboriginal parties with a proposed methodology to be used in the preparation of the cultural heritage assessment report to be submitted with the application (as referred to in clause 61), and

(b) give those parties a reasonable opportunity (being at least 28 days after the date of providing the proposed methodology) to make submissions (whether written or oral) on the proposed methodology.

(7) Proposed applicant to seek certain information The proposed applicant must, during the consultation on the proposed methodology of the cultural heritage assessment report referred to in subclause (6), seek the following information from the registered Aboriginal parties in relation to the area of land to which the proposed application relates—

(a) whether there are any Aboriginal objects of cultural value to Aboriginal people in the area,

(b) whether there are any places of cultural value to Aboriginal people in the area (whether they are Aboriginal places declared under section 84 of the Act or not).

(8) Consultation on draft cultural heritage assessment report After giving each registered Aboriginal party the opportunity to make submissions on the proposed methodology to be used in the preparation of the cultural heritage assessment report (as referred to in subclause (6)(b)), the proposed applicant must—

(a) provide a copy of the draft cultural heritage assessment report to the registered Aboriginal parties, and

(b) give those parties a reasonable opportunity (being at least 28 days after the date of providing the draft report) to make submissions (whether written or oral) on the draft report.

(9) An application for an Aboriginal heritage impact permit is not invalid merely because the applicant for the permit failed to comply with any one or more of the requirements set out in this clause.

Note.

Under section 90K(1)(g) of the Act, the Secretary, in making a decision in relation to an Aboriginal heritage impact permit, must consider whether any consultation by the applicant with Aboriginal people regarding the Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal place that are the subject of the permit substantially complied with any requirements for consultation set out in the regulations.

(10) Modified or alternative Aboriginal community consultation process Despite subclause (1), if an agreement of the following kind specifies or identifies a modified or alternative Aboriginal community consultation process for the purposes of Part 6 of the Act, the proposed applicant is to carry out an Aboriginal community consultation process in accordance with that modified or alternative consultation process—

(a) a registered Indigenous Land Use Agreement under the Native Title Act 1993 of the Commonwealth entered into between an Aboriginal community and the State,

(b) a lease entered into under Part 4A of the Act,

(c) an agreement entered into by the Secretary and a board of management for land reserved under Part 4A of the Act that has the consent of the Aboriginal owner board members for the land concerned,

(d) an agreement entered into between an Aboriginal community and the Department.

(11) In this clause—

approved determination of native title has the same meaning as in the Native Title Act 1993 of the Commonwealth.

native title holder has the same meaning as in the Native Title Act 1993 of the Commonwealth.

registered native title body corporate has the same meaning as in the Native Title Act 1993 of the Commonwealth.

cl 60: Am 2021 (25), Sch 1[8]; 2022 No 59, Sch 3.47[1] [2]; 2025 (329), Sch 1[22].

61 Aboriginal heritage impact permit—requirement for cultural heritage assessment report

61 Aboriginal heritage impact permit—requirement for cultural heritage assessment report

(1) For the purposes of section 90A(2)(b) of the Act, an application for the issue of an Aboriginal heritage impact permit must be accompanied by a cultural heritage assessment report.

(2) A cultural heritage assessment report is to deal with the following matters—

(a) the significance of the Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal places that are the subject of the application,

(b) the actual or likely harm to those Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal places from the proposed activity that is the subject of the application,

(c) any practical measures that may be taken to protect and conserve those Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal places,

(d) any practical measures that may be taken to avoid or mitigate any actual or likely harm to those Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal places.

(3) A cultural heritage assessment report must include—

(a) if any submission has been received from a registered Aboriginal party under clause 60 (including any submission on the proposed methodology to be used in the preparation of the report and any submission on the draft report), a copy of the submission, and

(b) the applicant’s response to each such submission.

(4) An applicant for the issue of an Aboriginal heritage impact permit must, within 14 days of making the application, send a copy of the application (including any cultural heritage assessment report submitted with the application) to the following—

(a) any registered Aboriginal party (within the meaning of clause 60) in relation to the application,

(b) the relevant Local Aboriginal Land Council.

62 Variation of an Aboriginal heritage impact permit—requirement for consultation process

62 Variation of an Aboriginal heritage impact permit—requirement for consultation process

If an application to vary an Aboriginal heritage impact permit is made and the proposed variation will authorise a significant increase in harm to the Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal places concerned, the Secretary is to require the applicant to carry out—

(a) if a modified or alternative consultation process (as referred to in clause 60(10)) applies in relation to the Aboriginal objects or Aboriginal places concerned—an Aboriginal community consultation process in accordance with that modified or alternative consultation process, or

(b) a community consultation process that the Secretary considers appropriate in the circumstances.

cl 62: Am 2021 (25), Sch 1[8]; 2022 No 59, Sch 3.47[1].

63 Application of Division

63 Application of Division

This Division applies to and in respect of any dependants (whether Aboriginal or not) of Aboriginal people in the same way as it applies to and in respect of Aboriginal people.

64 Aboriginal people exempt from prohibition on harming fauna

64 Aboriginal people exempt from prohibition on harming fauna

(1) Aboriginal people are exempted from section 70(1) of the Act to the extent to which the provision would prohibit Aboriginal people from hunting fauna for their own domestic purposes.

(2) The exemption does not apply to raptors, parrots or threatened species and threatened ecological communities within the meaning of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

65 Aboriginal people exempt from prohibition on picking or having native plants

65 Aboriginal people exempt from prohibition on picking or having native plants

Aboriginal people are exempted from section 71(1) of the Act to the extent to which those provisions would prohibit Aboriginal people from gathering or harvesting the fruit, flowers or other parts of a native plant for their own domestic purposes.

Part 6 Advisory committees

Part 6 Advisory committees

66 Meetings to be held

66 Meetings to be held

(1) An advisory committee constituted under section 24 of the Act must—

(a) hold its first meeting within 3 months of its constitution, and

(b) hold meetings at least once every 3 months, and

(c) hold an annual general meeting before the end of June each year.

(2) A meeting (including an annual general meeting) must be held when and where convened by the chairperson or, in the chairperson’s absence, by the deputy chairperson.

67 Appointment of officers at annual general meeting

67 Appointment of officers at annual general meeting

(1) At each annual general meeting, the members must appoint a chairperson, deputy chairperson and secretary.

(2) The chairperson and deputy chairperson are to be elected from among the members.

(3) The secretary may be—

(a) elected from among the members, or

(b) with the concurrence of the Secretary, a person who is not a member appointed by the members.

(4) Except as otherwise provided by the Act or this Part, a person elected or appointed as a chairperson, deputy chairperson or secretary—

(a) holds office until a successor is elected or appointed, and

(b) is eligible for re-election or re-appointment at the next annual general meeting.

(5) An elected chairperson, deputy chairperson, or secretary who is a member, ceases to hold office as such if the person ceases to be a member.

(6) A vacancy in any office must be filled at the next meeting after the vacancy occurs.

68 Presiding member

68 Presiding member

(1) The chairperson, or in the chairperson’s absence the deputy chairperson, is to preside at the meetings of an advisory committee, but if both are absent, the members are to elect a person from among the members to preside as chairperson.

(2) The presiding member has a deliberative vote on any matter before the meeting and, in the case of an equality of votes, a casting vote.

69 Administrative matters

69 Administrative matters

(1) The secretary must circulate to each member an agenda and associated business papers at least 7 days before any meeting of the advisory committee.

(2) The secretary (or a member on the secretary’s behalf) must keep minutes of each meeting and must supply the members with a copy of the minutes of the meeting not later than one calendar month after the date of the meeting.

(3) The secretary of an advisory committee is responsible for the care of all business papers and correspondence.

(4) The secretary must forward to the Secretary not later than 30 June of each financial year, the particulars of the dates of, and of members attending, each meeting during that year.

Part 6A Board of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust—the Act, s 95(5)

Part 6A Board of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust—the Act, s 95(5)

69A Definitions

69A Definitions

In this Part—

Board means the Board of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Chairperson means the Chairperson of the Board.

Deputy Chairperson means the Deputy Chairperson of the Board.

member means a member of the Board.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69B Composition

69B Composition

(1) The persons appointed as members must be persons who, in the Minister’s opinion, have skills and experience in one or more of the following areas—

(a) philanthropy,

(b) conservation,

(c) financial management,

(d) communications,

(e) others areas the Minister considers relevant.

(2) Government sector employees are eligible to be appointed as members of the Board, but must not make up a majority of members.

(3) The Minister may publicly advertise for nominations for appointment of persons as members of the Board.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69C Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson

69C Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson

(1) The Minister must appoint a member as—

(a) a Chairperson, and

(b) a Deputy Chairperson.

(2) The Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson vacates office as Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson if the person—

(a) ceases to be a member of the Board, or

(b) resigns from the office of Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson by instrument in writing, including electronic communication, addressed to the Minister, or

(c) is removed from the office of Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson by the Minister.

(3) If the office of Chairperson or Deputy Chairperson becomes vacant, a person must be appointed to fill the vacancy.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69D Terms of office

69D Terms of office

(1) Subject to this Part, a member holds office for the period specified in the member’s instrument of appointment.

(2) The period referred to in subclause (1) must not exceed 5 years.

(3) A member may be re-appointed.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69E Removal from office

69E Removal from office

The Minister may remove a member from office.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69F Vacancy in office of member

69F Vacancy in office of member

The office of a member becomes vacant if the member—

(a) dies, or

(b) completes a term of office and is not re-appointed, or

(c) resigns the office by instrument in writing, including electronic communication, addressed to the Minister, or

(d) is removed from office by the Minister, or

(e) becomes bankrupt, applies to take the benefit of a law for the relief of bankrupt or insolvent debtors, compounds with the member’s creditors or makes an assignment of the member’s remuneration for the member’s benefit, or

(f) is a mentally incapacitated person, or

(g) is convicted in New South Wales of an offence that is punishable by imprisonment for 12 months or more or is convicted elsewhere of an offence that, if committed in New South Wales, would be an offence punishable by imprisonment for 12 months or more.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69G Remuneration

69G Remuneration

A member is entitled to be paid the remuneration, including travelling and subsistence allowances, determined by the Minister for the member.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69H Quorum

69H Quorum

The quorum for a meeting of the Board is a majority of the Board’s members for the time being.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69I Presiding member

69I Presiding member

(1) The Chairperson must preside at a meeting of the Board, unless the Chairperson is absent.

(2) If the Chairperson is absent—

(a) the Deputy Chairperson must preside, or

(b) if the Deputy Chairperson is absent—a person from among the members present, elected by the members who are present at the meeting, must preside.

(3) The person presiding at a meeting has a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, has a second or casting vote.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69J General procedure

69J General procedure

The procedure for calling meetings of the Board and for conducting business at the meetings is, subject to the Act and the regulations, to be determined by the Board.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69K Voting

69K Voting

A decision supported by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the Board at which a quorum is present is the decision of the Board.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69L Disclosure of pecuniary interests

69L Disclosure of pecuniary interests

(1) A member must disclose the nature of a pecuniary interest at a meeting of the Board as soon as possible after the relevant facts have come to the member’s knowledge.

(2) A member has a pecuniary interest if—

(a) the member has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter being considered, or about to be considered, at a meeting of the Board, and

(b) the interest appears to raise a conflict with the proper performance of the member’s duties in relation to the consideration of the matter.

(3) A disclosure is a sufficient disclosure of the nature of an interest in a matter relating to a company or other body, or to a person, that may arise after the date of the disclosure under subclause (1) if the disclosure is that the member—

(a) is a member, or is in the employment, of a specified company or other body, or

(b) is a partner, or is in the employment of, a specified person, or

(c) has some other specified interest relating to a specified company or other body, or to a specified person.

(4) Particulars of a disclosure made under this clause must be recorded by the Board in a book that is—

(a) kept for the purpose of recording disclosures, and

(b) open to inspection at all reasonable hours by a person on payment of the fee determined by the Board.

(5) After a member has disclosed the nature of an interest in a matter, the member must not, unless the Minister or the Board otherwise determines—

(a) be present during a deliberation of the Board about the matter, or

(b) take part in a decision of the Board about the matter.

(6) For the purposes of making a determination by the Board under subclause (5), a member who has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter to which the disclosure relates must not—

(a) be present during a deliberation of the Board for the purpose of making the determination, or

(b) take part in the making of the determination by the Board.

(7) A contravention of this clause does not invalidate a decision of the Board.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69M Effect of certain other Acts

69M Effect of certain other Acts

(1) The provisions of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 relating to the employment of Public Service employees do not apply to a member.

(2) A provision of another Act does not disqualify a person from holding a specified office and also the office of member, or from accepting and retaining remuneration payable to the person as a member, merely because the provision—

(a) requires a person who is the holder of the specified office to devote the whole of the person’s time to the duties of the office, or

(b) prohibits the person from engaging in employment outside the duties of the office.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69N Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone or other means

69N Transaction of business outside meetings or by telephone or other means

(1) The Board may transact its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the Board for the time being.

(2) If the Board transacts business by the circulation of papers, a resolution in writing, approved in writing by a majority of the members, is taken to be a decision of the Board made at a meeting of the Board.

(3) The Board may transact its business at a meeting at which members, or some members, participate by telephone or other electronic means, but only if a member who speaks on a matter before the meeting can be heard by the other members.

(4) The Chairperson and each other member have the same voting rights as the Chairperson and the other member would have at an ordinary meeting of the Board for the purposes of—

(a) the approval of a resolution under subclause (1), or

(b) a meeting held in accordance with subclause (3).

(5) A resolution approved under subclause (2) must, subject to this Part, be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the Board.

(6) Papers may be circulated among the members for the purposes of subclause (1) by electronic means.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

69O Seal of Trust

69O Seal of Trust

(1) The seal of the Trust must be kept by—

(a) a member of the Board, or

(b) a member of staff of the Trust, authorised by the Board to keep the seal.

(2) The Board may authorise a member of the Board or of the staff of the Trust to witness an affixing of the seal generally or in a particular case or class of cases (an authorised witness).

(3) The seal of the Trust must be affixed to a document only—

(a) in the presence of an authorised witness, and

(b) with an attestation by the signature of an authorised witness of the fact of the affixing of the seal.

pt 6A, divs 1–3 (cll 69A–69O): Ins 2021 No 47, Sch 2[2].

Part 7 Trustees

Part 7 Trustees

70 Meetings to be held

70 Meetings to be held

(1) The trustees appointed to trust boards for state conservation areas and regional parks under the Act must hold an annual general meeting before the end of May each year.

(2) The trustees must also meet at least 10 times a year at intervals not exceeding 2 months or such number of times and at such intervals as the Minister determines.

(3) A meeting must be held when and where convened by the chairperson or, in the chairperson’s absence, by the deputy chairperson.

71 Special meetings

71 Special meetings

(1) Any 2 trustees may, by notice in writing, request the chairperson to call a special meeting for a purpose specified in the notice.

(2) On receiving such a request, the chairperson must call a special meeting to be held within 28 days after the chairperson receives the request.

72 Appointment of officers

72 Appointment of officers

(1) At each annual general meeting, the trustees must appoint a chairperson, deputy chairperson, secretary, treasurer and auditor.

(2) The chairperson and deputy chairperson are to be elected from among the trustees.

(3) The secretary, treasurer and auditor may be elected from among the trustees or may be persons who are not trustees appointed by the trustees.

(4) Except as otherwise provided by the Act or this Part, a person elected or appointed as chairperson, deputy chairperson, secretary, treasurer or auditor—

(a) holds office until a successor is elected or appointed, and

(b) is eligible for re-election or re-appointment at the next annual general meeting.

(5) A vacancy in any office must be filled at the next meeting after the vacancy occurs.

73 Presiding member

73 Presiding member

(1) The chairperson, or in the chairperson’s absence the deputy chairperson, is to preside at meetings of the trustees, but if both are absent, the trustees are to elect a person from among their number to preside.

(2) The person presiding at a meeting of the trustees has a deliberative vote and, in the case of an equality of votes, a casting vote.

74 Conduct of meetings

74 Conduct of meetings

(1) Meetings of the trustees must be conducted, as far as is practicable, in accordance with the procedures set out in Part 10 of the Local Government (General) Regulation 2005.

(2) A resolution that has been passed by the trustees must not be altered or rescinded except by a motion to that effect of which at least 7 days’ written notice has been given to each trustee.

75 Committees

75 Committees

(1) The trustees may appoint one or more committees to carry out any work or perform any duties that the trustees may determine.

(2) A committee may consist of trustees, of persons who are not trustees or of both trustees and persons who are not trustees.

76 Common seal

76 Common seal

The common seal of the trustees—

(a) may be affixed to an instrument or a document only following a resolution to do so passed at a meeting of the trustees, and

(b) must be affixed in the presence of a trustee and either the secretary or treasurer, each of whom must attest the fact of the affixing of the common seal by signing the instrument or document.

77 Administrative matters

77 Administrative matters

(1) The chairperson must circulate to each trustee an agenda and associated business papers at least 10 days before any meeting of the trustees.

(2) Subclause (1) does not apply to a special meeting if the chairperson believes that the meeting should be held as soon as possible and it is impracticable to circulate an agenda and associated business papers before the start of the meeting, in which case the chairperson may give notice of the meeting and of the agenda for the meeting in the manner that the chairperson considers appropriate.

(3) The secretary must keep minutes of each meeting and is responsible to the trustees for the keeping of proper financial records in collaboration with the treasurer.

(4) If no chairperson has been appointed or there is a vacancy in the office of chairperson, the Secretary may perform the functions of the chairperson under this Part.

78 Financial matters

78 Financial matters

(1) All money received by the trustees must be paid into the National Parks and Wildlife Fund referred to in section 137 of the Act except money allocated to the trustees by the Minister for wages, for associated ancillary costs or for other specific purposes.

(2) Money allocated to the trustees by the Minister under this clause must be paid into an authorised deposit-taking institution in New South Wales to the credit of an account in the name of the state conservation area or regional park for which the trustees are appointed.

(3) Interest earned on money standing to the credit of such an account must be expended only for the purposes for which the money was allocated by the Minister under this clause.

(4) No reallocation of money or variation of staff establishments on which an allocation under this clause is based may be made without the approval of the Minister.

(5) Each item of expenditure must be authorised, or the payment of such an item of expenditure must be confirmed, at a duly constituted meeting of the trustees through tabling and approval of a treasurer’s report relating to that item of expenditure.

(6) Cheques drawn on a trustees’ account kept under this clause must be signed by—

(a) two trustees, or

(b) one trustee, and the secretary or treasurer to the trustees, or

(c) one trustee, and the manager, assistant manager or deputy manager of the state conservation area or regional park for which the trustees are appointed.

(7) The trustees’ financial year ends on 30 June each year.

Part 7A Assets of intergenerational significance

Part 7A Assets of intergenerational significance

78A Definitions

78A Definitions

In this Part—

approved conservation action plan, for declared land, means a conservation action plan prepared in accordance with this Part for the land and approved by the Secretary under clause 78E.

conservation activity, for declared land, means an activity that may be, or must be, carried out for the purposes of managing the land in accordance with an approved conservation action plan for the land.

environmental and cultural values, of declared land, are the environmental and cultural values on the basis of which the land was declared to be land to which the Act, section 153G applies.

cl 78A: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[3] [4].

78B Management of declared land

78B Management of declared land

For the purposes of the Act, section 153G(4), the following actions may be taken for the management of declared land—

(a) the management of known or foreseeable risks to the land, including the protection of the land from bush fire risks,

(b) the preparation of a conservation action plan for the land in accordance with this Part,

(c) the approval of the conservation action plan for the land in accordance with this Part,

(d) the carrying out of conservation activities under the approved conservation action plan for the land,

(e) the carrying out of scientific research—

(i) by the Service, or

(ii) by another person in accordance with a licence, permit or authorisation granted under the Act or the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016,

(f) the maintenance of infrastructure.

cl 78B: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[5]; 2025 (329), Sch 1[36].

78C Preparation of conservation action plans

78C Preparation of conservation action plans

(1) The Secretary must prepare a conservation action plan for declared land.

(2) A conservation action plan may apply to—

(a) 1 or more areas of declared land, or

(b) part of an area of declared land.

(3) A conservation action plan must identify the following for the purposes of managing the land—

(a) the environmental and cultural values of the land,

(b) the key risks to the environmental and cultural values of the land,

(c) the conservation activities required to—

(i) control, abate or mitigate the key risks to the environmental or cultural values of the land, and

(ii) maintain, remediate or restore the environmental or cultural values of the land,

(d) the requirements for measuring and reporting on the health and condition of the environmental or cultural values of the land.

cl 78C: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[6].

78D Public exhibition of draft conservation action plans

78D Public exhibition of draft conservation action plans

(1) Before approving a draft conservation action plan, the Secretary must—

(a) publicly exhibit the draft plan for a period (the public exhibition period) of not less than 14 days by publishing the draft plan on a website maintained by the Department, and

(b) consider the submissions received during the public exhibition period.

(2) However, if, in the Secretary’s opinion, the draft plan contains information the disclosure of which may place at risk the protection of the environmental and cultural values of the declared land, the Secretary may prepare an amended or redacted version of the draft plan for the purposes of public exhibition under subclause (1)(a).

(3) Despite subclause (1)(a), if the Secretary is satisfied the urgent finalisation and approval of the plan is necessary to address an imminent threat to declared land, the Secretary is not required to publicly exhibit the draft plan.

cl 78D: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[7].

78E Approval of conservation action plans

78E Approval of conservation action plans

(1) The Secretary must approve a conservation action plan for declared land within 90 days after an order made under the Act, section 153G relating to the land is published in the Gazette.

(2) Despite subclause (1), a conservation action plan not approved within that time is valid if the plan is approved after that time.

cl 78E: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[4].

78F Publication of approved conservation action plans

78F Publication of approved conservation action plans

(1) The Secretary must publish the approved conservation action plan on a website maintained by the Department within 28 days after the plan is approved by the Secretary.

(2) However, if, in the Secretary’s opinion, the approved plan contains information the disclosure of which may place at risk the protection of the environmental and cultural values of the declared land, the Secretary may prepare an amended or redacted version of the approved plan for the purposes of publication under subclause (1).

(3) The failure to publish an approved conservation action plan does not invalidate the plan.

cl 78F: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[7].

78G Effect of conservation action plans

78G Effect of conservation action plans

The Secretary must ensure the conservation activities for declared land are carried out in accordance with the approved conservation action plan for the land.

cll 78G: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1.

78H Amendment of conservation action plans

78H Amendment of conservation action plans

(1) An approved conservation action plan may be amended or replaced by a subsequent conservation action plan prepared and approved in accordance with this Part.

(2) A subsequent conservation action plan must be exhibited in accordance with this Part.

(3) Despite subclause (2), the Secretary may elect not to publicly exhibit a draft subsequent conservation action plan if the Secretary is satisfied the proposed amendments are minor.

cll 78H: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1.

78I Information relating to health and condition of declared land

78I Information relating to health and condition of declared land

(1) The Secretary must publish information relating to the health and condition of declared land on a website maintained by the Department.

(2) However, if, in the Secretary’s opinion, the information contains matters the disclosure of which may place at risk the protection of the environmental and cultural values of the declared land, the Secretary may prepare an amended or redacted version of the information for the purposes of publication under subclause (1).

cl 78I: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[7].

78J Review of implementation of conservation action plans

78J Review of implementation of conservation action plans

(1) The Secretary must appoint a scientist, or a panel of scientists, to conduct a review, as soon as possible after the period of 5 years from the first approval of a conservation action plan, to examine whether conservation action plans have been effectively implemented.

(2) The Secretary must consult the Chief Scientist and Engineer before making an appointment under subclause (1).

(3) The review must evaluate the effectiveness of conservation action plans, including the following matters—

(a) the implementation of conservation activities to—

(i) control, abate or mitigate the key risks to the environmental or cultural values of declared land, and

(ii) maintain, remediate or restore the environmental or cultural values of declared land,

(b) the measurement of, and reporting on, the health and condition of declared land.

(4) The Secretary must—

(a) prepare a report on the findings of the review, and

(b) publish the report on a website maintained by the Department within 28 days after the findings of the review are provided to the Secretary.

(5) However, if, in the Secretary’s opinion, the report contains information the disclosure of which may place at risk the protection of the environmental and cultural values of the declared land, the Secretary may prepare an amended or redacted version of the report for the purposes of publication under subclause (4)(b).

cl 78J: Ins 2021 (406), Sch 1. Am 2021 No 47, Sch 2[7].

78K Prohibited disclosure of certain information in relation to declared land—the Act, s 155(2)(g) and (i)–(k)

78K Prohibited disclosure of certain information in relation to declared land—the Act, s 155(2)(g) and (i)–(k)

(1) This clause applies to declared land in relation to which information is not required to be published under the Act, section 153G(3) (sensitive declared land).

(2) A person must not disclose information relating to sensitive declared land if the disclosure of the information—

(a) reveals the location of the sensitive declared land, or

(b) may risk the protection of the environmental and cultural values of the sensitive declared land.

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(3) Subclause (2) does not apply if the disclosure is made—

(a) with the consent of the Secretary and in accordance with any conditions to which the consent is subject, or

(b) to another person in connection with the administration of the Act, Part 12A.

cl 78K: Ins 2025 (329), Sch 1[37].

Part 8 Miscellaneous

Part 8 Miscellaneous

79 Ex-officio rangers

79 Ex-officio rangers

For the purposes of section 19(1) of the Act, an ex-officio ranger (whether a police officer, a fisheries officer within the meaning of the Fisheries Management Act 1994 or an authorised officer within the meaning of the Forestry Act 2012) has the powers, authorities, duties and functions conferred or imposed on officers of the National Parks and Wildlife Service by or under sections 157(1) and (2) and 158 of the Act.

80 Exemption—persons accompanied by assistance dogs in nature reserves

80 Exemption—persons accompanied by assistance dogs in nature reserves

A person who is accompanied by a dog that is an assistance animal is exempted from section 56(1)(e) of the Act.

81 Notice of preparation of plans of management

81 Notice of preparation of plans of management

For the purposes of section 73A of the Act, notice of the preparation of a plan of management is to be given in the form of an advertisement published in the Gazette.

82 Terms of interim protection orders

82 Terms of interim protection orders

(1) For the purposes of section 91B(3) of the Act, an interim protection order may contain terms of either or both of the following kinds—

(a) terms that prohibit the owner or occupier of land subject to the order from doing any one or more of the things listed in subclause (2) or from causing or permitting them to be done,

(b) terms that allow the owner or occupier to do any one or more of those things (or to cause or permit them to be done) only with the consent of the Minister or only subject to other conditions.

(2) The things that may be prohibited or regulated by an interim protection order are—

(a) the total or partial demolition, damaging, defacing, destruction, pulling down or removal of any building, structure or work on the land, and

(b) the damaging or despoiling of the land or any part of it, and

(c) the carrying on of any activity on the land that would constitute the carrying out of development (within the meaning of Division 12 of Part 4 of the Act) if the land were within a conservation area, whether or not it is within such an area, and

(d) the exhibition of any notice or advertisement on the land, and

(e) the damaging or destruction of any tree or other vegetation on, or the removal of any tree or other vegetation from, the land, and

(f) the carrying on (whether or not within a park) of any activity that may affect the preservation, protection or maintenance of the land or any threatened species or threatened ecological communities, or its habitat (within the meaning of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016), or any fauna, plant, Aboriginal object or Aboriginal place on or within the land.