(1) In relation to a
protected area the Governor may make regulations prohibiting, or imposing
conditions or restrictions upon —
(a)
persons entering or remaining within the area;
(b) the
use of vehicles, explosives, instruments, tools, and equipment of any kind
specified, or generally;
(c)
damage or destruction to vegetation, the working of the land, or the
disturbance of the surface or the subsoil within the area;
(d)
livestock entering or remaining within an area where the Registrar has taken
reasonable measures to protect the area from damage by livestock,
and may make all such
other regulations as may in his opinion be required or permitted by this Act
for ensuring that the places and objects to which this Act applies, and the
immediate environment necessary to maintain the nature and substance of the
significance attached thereto, are protected from damage, disturbance or
adverse influence.
(2) A person who
contravenes any provision of a regulation made pursuant to subsection (1)
commits an offence against this Act, and where a person enters or remains
within a protected area in the course of his employment in contravention of
any such regulation the employer and that person are each guilty of an offence
against this Act.
[Section 26 amended: No. 24 of 1995 s. 27.]