Scientific area
34E Scientific area
The chief executive—
must ensure a scientific area is used and managed to preserve it as a sample of the natural environment of the State forest concerned; and
may permit persons, who in the chief executive’s opinion are suitably qualified, to study the nature and environment of a scientific area; and
may carry out or allow to be carried out in any scientific area any works which the chief executive considers necessary or desirable.
Permission given pursuant to subsection (1)(b) shall be in writing and may be given subject to such provisions, reservations and conditions as the chief executive considers appropriate.
A person who contravenes or fails to comply with a provision, reservation or condition of a permit given to the person pursuant to subsection (1)(b) commits an offence.
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