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STATUTES AMENDMENT (ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION PORTFOLIO) ACT 2005 (NO 20 OF 2005) - SECT 7

7—Amendment of section 14—Regulations may prohibit certain activities in protected zone

        (1)         Section 14(1) and (2)—delete subsections (1) and (2) and substitute:

        (1)         The regulations may prohibit or restrict—

            (a)         the bringing into a protected zone of equipment constructed or adapted for the purpose of diving, salvage or recovery operations, or of explosives, instruments or tools the use of which would be likely to damage or interfere with a historic shipwreck or a historic relic situated within that protected zone; or

            (b)         the use within a protected zone of such equipment, explosives, instruments or tools; or

            (c)         causing a ship carrying such equipment, explosives, instruments or tools to enter, or remain within, a protected zone; or

            (d)         trawling, or diving or other underwater activity, within a protected zone; or

            (e)         the mooring or use of ships within a protected zone.

        (2)         Regulations made for the purposes of this section for restricting the doing of an act may prohibit the doing of that act except in accordance with a permit.

        (2)         Section 14(3)—delete "subsection (1)(a)" and substitute:

subsection (1)

        (3)         Section 14—after subsection (3) insert:

        (3a)         A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a regulation under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: $1 250 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.



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