sec.26Other prohibited activities

sec.26 Other prohibited activities

A person must not, without a reasonable excuse, carry out any of the following activities in the wet tropics area, except so far as the activity is lawfully carried out under division 3 or 4 or a registered cooperative management agreement— planting, cultivating, propagating or disposing of an undesirable plant; keeping or grazing an undesirable animal, bringing in an undesirable animal, or allowing an undesirable animal to stray or escape onto, or remain at, any place in the area; translocating a crustacean or fish; mining, fossicking, eductor dredging or destructive mineral exploration; excavating, grading, quarrying or otherwise interfering with earth; interfering with a watercourse by extracting or diverting water, damming the watercourse or carrying out another activity interfering with its natural flow; building or maintaining community services infrastructure, visitor infrastructure or another structure; building or maintaining a road, other than a road that is community services infrastructure; disposing of waste; operating a waste facility; operating a motor vehicle; operating a motorised boat; flying a motorised aircraft less than 1,000ft above the area, or landing a motorised aircraft, for commercial purposes; reconfiguring a lot, if the reconfiguration would be assessable development for which a local government would be the assessment manager. Maximum penalty— for subsection (1) (a) , (c) , (d) , (e) , (f) , (g) , (h) or (j) —165 penalty units; or for subsection (1) (b) or (i) —100 penalty units; or for subsection (1) (k) , (l) , (m) or (n) —50 penalty units. To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1) , other than (1)(m), applies to an activity whether or not it is carried out as a business. s 26 amd 2020 SL No. 176 s 13 (sec.26-ssec.1) A person must not, without a reasonable excuse, carry out any of the following activities in the wet tropics area, except so far as the activity is lawfully carried out under division 3 or 4 or a registered cooperative management agreement— planting, cultivating, propagating or disposing of an undesirable plant; keeping or grazing an undesirable animal, bringing in an undesirable animal, or allowing an undesirable animal to stray or escape onto, or remain at, any place in the area; translocating a crustacean or fish; mining, fossicking, eductor dredging or destructive mineral exploration; excavating, grading, quarrying or otherwise interfering with earth; interfering with a watercourse by extracting or diverting water, damming the watercourse or carrying out another activity interfering with its natural flow; building or maintaining community services infrastructure, visitor infrastructure or another structure; building or maintaining a road, other than a road that is community services infrastructure; disposing of waste; operating a waste facility; operating a motor vehicle; operating a motorised boat; flying a motorised aircraft less than 1,000ft above the area, or landing a motorised aircraft, for commercial purposes; reconfiguring a lot, if the reconfiguration would be assessable development for which a local government would be the assessment manager. Maximum penalty— for subsection (1) (a) , (c) , (d) , (e) , (f) , (g) , (h) or (j) —165 penalty units; or for subsection (1) (b) or (i) —100 penalty units; or for subsection (1) (k) , (l) , (m) or (n) —50 penalty units. (sec.26-ssec.2) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (1) , other than (1)(m), applies to an activity whether or not it is carried out as a business.