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Recreation Areas Management Regulation 2024
sec.9Plants not to be taken or used for fires
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### sec.9 Plants not to be taken or used for fires
A person must not take or use a plant from a recreation area to light, keep or use a fire in the area.
Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply to a plant—
that the chief executive has provided in a recreation area to use for a fire; or
that is taken into a recreation area to use for a fire in accordance with a written approval of the chief executive, a permit or a regulatory notice.
In this section—
plant includes—
timber or a dead plant; and
part of a plant.
(sec.9-ssec.1) A person must not take or use a plant from a recreation area to light, keep or use a fire in the area. Maximum penalty—20 penalty units.
(sec.9-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a plant— that the chief executive has provided in a recreation area to use for a fire; or that is taken into a recreation area to use for a fire in accordance with a written approval of the chief executive, a permit or a regulatory notice.
(sec.9-ssec.3) In this section— plant includes— timber or a dead plant; and part of a plant.
- (a) that the chief executive has provided in a recreation area to use for a fire; or
- (b) that is taken into a recreation area to use for a fire in accordance with a written approval of the chief executive, a permit or a regulatory notice.
- (a) timber or a dead plant; and
- (b) part of a plant.