Wilderness Protection Regulations 2021

A person must not, without the permission of the relevant authority, abandon or leave unattended for more than 24 hours a vehicle or other personal property in a wilderness protection area or wilderness protection zone. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $1 250. Expiation fee: $100.

Subregulation (1) is subject to the rights of a person pursuant to a mining tenement and a proclamation under Part 3

A vehicle or personal property abandoned or left unattended for more than 24 hours in a wilderness protection area or wilderness protection zone may be seized and impounded by a warden.

The relevant authority may require the owner of a vehicle or personal property seized and impounded under this regulation to pay the cost of seizing, impounding and keeping the vehicle or personal property before returning the vehicle or personal property to the owner.

If, at the expiration of 1 month after the owner of a vehicle or personal property has been notified of its seizure or impounding, the owner has not—

paid to the relevant authority the cost of seizing, impounding and keeping the vehicle or personal property; or

if no such costs are payable—collected the vehicle or personal property, the relevant authority may sell or otherwise dispose of the vehicle or personal property.

If the owner of a vehicle or personal property seized or impounded under this regulation is unknown or cannot be contacted, the relevant authority may, after the expiration of 1 month after the vehicle or personal property has been seized or impounded, sell or otherwise dispose of the vehicle or personal property.