Conservation and Land Management Regulations 2002

While a direction is in force under regulation 44, any authorised officer may by placement of signs, markings, barriers, or buoys mark out any area (whether one or more) that is for the time being closed for the purposes of that regulation.

The dimensions of any closed area are not to be greater than is reasonably required for the purposes of regulation 44(1).

Sufficient signs, markings, barriers or buoys are to be erected and maintained in or in the vicinity of a closed area indicating that entry to that area is prohibited without permission of an authorised officer.

A sign, marking, barrier or buoy placed in the vicinity of any land or waters to which a direction under regulation 44 applies is to be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be a sign, marking, barrier or buoy placed by an authorised officer under subregulation (1).