Lighting, kindling or maintaining fires
46 Lighting, kindling or maintaining fires
The managing body by determination may set aside an area of a forest reserve as an area where a fire, or a fire of a specified type, may be lit, kindled or maintained.
A determination under subregulation (1) may specify the times or periods during which the area set aside under subregulation (1)—
may be used for the lighting, kindling or maintaining of fires, or the lighting, kindling or maintaining of fires of a specified type; and
must not be used for the lighting, kindling or maintaining of fires, or the lighting, kindling or maintaining of fires of a specified type.
A person must not light, kindle or maintain a fire in a forest reserve unless—
that person does so in an area set aside under subregulation (1) in accordance with the determination; and
the fire is—
lit, kindled or maintained in a fixed fireplace; or
in a campfire or barbecue that uses solid fuel, liquid fuel, gaseous fuel or chemical solid fuel.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
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