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National Parks Act 1980

Control and management of national parks - Powers of Minister

50: Accommodation within parks

You could also call this:

"Rules for staying overnight in national parks"

The Minister can set up or allow others to set up places for people to stay in national parks. This includes camping grounds, huts, hostels, hotels, and other buildings. The Minister decides how these places should be designed, built, and used.

The Minister can also build places for rangers and other people who work in the park to stay. They can let people who work in the park build homes there too.

The Minister can use stone, gravel, and similar materials from the park when building these places.

If there were already hotels or places to stay in the park before this law was made, the Minister can give permission for someone to run them.

When deciding about these places to stay, the Minister needs to think about the plan for managing the park. When they make new plans for the park, they also need to think about any permissions they've already given for places to stay.

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Part 5Control and management of national parks
Powers of Minister

50Accommodation within parks

  1. The Minister may, from time to time, in accordance with the management plan for a park, and on such terms and conditions as to design, materials, situation, custody, use, rental, inspection, maintenance, public access, or otherwise as he determines,—

  2. establish, or authorise, or assist in the establishment by any body or person (whether incorporated or not), of camping grounds, huts, hostels, accommodation houses, hotels, and other buildings, or facilities in any park:
      1. erect or authorise the erection of accommodation for the use of rangers or officers of any department of State or other persons engaged in the administration, control, or management of the park or the protection of forests in or adjacent to the park:
        1. grant concessions over or in respect of land within the park as sites for dwellings for persons or bodies (whether incorporated or not) carrying on any activity within the park.

          1. In the exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the Minister may permit the use of stone, gravel, or similar substances found in the park.

          2. Repealed

          3. Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may grant a lease or licence of any hotel, accommodation house, or facility that was established in any park before the commencement of this subsection, whether or not the grant of any such lease or licence is authorised by either of those subsections.

          4. While a lease or licence granted under subsection (4) is in force, the following provisions shall apply:

          5. the person or body carrying out any review of the management plan for the park shall have regard to the provisions of that lease or licence:
            1. before granting a new lease or licence in place of that lease or licence, or a renewal of that lease or licence, the Minister shall have regard to the provisions of the management plan (if any) that is for the time being in force for the park.

              Notes
              • Section 50(1)(a): amended, on , by section 121(1)(a) of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31).
              • Section 50(1)(b): repealed, on , by section 6(1)(a) of the National Parks Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 4).
              • Section 50(1)(d): replaced, on , by section 6(2) of the National Parks Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 4).
              • Section 50(2): amended, on , by section 6(1)(b) of the National Parks Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 4).
              • Section 50(3): repealed, on , by section 6(1)(c) of the National Parks Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 4).
              • Section 50(4): inserted, on , by section 121(2) of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31).
              • Section 50(4): amended, on , by section 6(1)(d) of the National Parks Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 4).
              • Section 50(5): inserted, on , by section 121(2) of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31).