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Recreation Areas Management Act 2006
sec.159Power to give direction to leave camping site for protection, safety or minimising disturbance
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### sec.159 Power to give direction to leave camping site for protection, safety or minimising disturbance
An authorised officer may give a person camping in part of a recreation area (the camping site ) an oral or written direction requiring the person, and each other person camping with the person, to immediately—
leave the camping site; and
remove all of the person’s possessions and the equipment or other things being used for camping from the site.
However, the officer may give the direction only if the officer reasonably believes it is necessary for the person, and the other persons camping with the person, to leave the site to—
protect cultural or natural resources in the recreation area; or
secure the safety of a person or a person’s property; or
minimise disturbance to persons in the recreation area.
In giving the direction the authorised officer must advise the reason why the direction has been given.
A person to whom the direction is given, and each other person camping with the person, must, unless the person has a reasonable excuse, comply with the direction.
Maximum penalty for subsection (4) —50 penalty units.
(sec.159-ssec.1) An authorised officer may give a person camping in part of a recreation area (the camping site ) an oral or written direction requiring the person, and each other person camping with the person, to immediately— leave the camping site; and remove all of the person’s possessions and the equipment or other things being used for camping from the site.
(sec.159-ssec.2) However, the officer may give the direction only if the officer reasonably believes it is necessary for the person, and the other persons camping with the person, to leave the site to— protect cultural or natural resources in the recreation area; or secure the safety of a person or a person’s property; or minimise disturbance to persons in the recreation area.
(sec.159-ssec.3) In giving the direction the authorised officer must advise the reason why the direction has been given.
(sec.159-ssec.4) A person to whom the direction is given, and each other person camping with the person, must, unless the person has a reasonable excuse, comply with the direction. Maximum penalty for subsection (4) —50 penalty units.
- (a) leave the camping site; and
- (b) remove all of the person’s possessions and the equipment or other things being used for camping from the site.
- (a) protect cultural or natural resources in the recreation area; or
- (b) secure the safety of a person or a person’s property; or
- (c) minimise disturbance to persons in the recreation area.