Queensland Consolidated Regulations

NATURE CONSERVATION (PROTECTED AREAS MANAGEMENT) REGULATION 2017 - REG 93

93 Complying with direction to leave camping site for protection, safety or minimising disturbance

(1) A conservation officer may give a person camping in a part of a protected area (the
"camping site" ) an oral or written direction requiring the person, and each other person camping with the person, to immediately—

(a) leave the camping site; and

(b) remove all of the person’s possessions and the equipment or other things being used for camping from the site.

(2) However, the officer may give the direction only if the officer reasonably believes it is necessary for the person, and the other persons camping with the person, to leave the site to—

(a) protect cultural or natural resources of the protected area; or

(b) secure the safety of a person or a person’s property; or

(c) minimise disturbance to persons in the area.

(3) In giving the direction the conservation officer must—

(a) advise the reason why the direction is given; and

(b) warn the person to whom it is given, and the other persons camping with the person, that it is an offence to fail to comply with the direction unless the person has a reasonable excuse.

(4) The conservation officer’s failure to comply with subsection (3) does not affect the validity of the direction.

(5) A person to whom a direction is given under subsection (1) , and each other person camping with the person, must, unless the person has a reasonable excuse, comply with the direction.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty for subsection (5) —50 penalty units.