Victorian Consolidated Regulations

FORESTS (RECREATION) (TEMPORARY) REGULATIONS 2021 - REG 17

    (1)     A person must not within a State forest undertake any construction or work without a permit unless that person does so in accordance with—

        (a)     a miner's right or a tourist fossicking authority; or

        (b)     regulation 22(2)(b).

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (2)     For the purposes of subregulation (1), the managing body may issue a permit to a person to undertake construction or work.

    (3)     In this regulation—

"construction" includes building, modifying, maintaining, adding to, or erecting any building, permanent structure or improvement;

"work" means any activity that modifies land or the environment including the following—

        (a)     making paths, track and trails;

        (b)     digging, moving or removing soil, rock or stone;

        (c)     clearing vegetation;

        (d)     moving or removing any object or thing provided or erected by the managing body;

        (e)     installing or erecting any object or thing that is not a building, permanent structure or improvement.

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