27Caves

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