National Parks Act 1980

Infringement offences - Infringement offences

71G: Failure to remove animal, vehicle, aircraft, or boat

You could also call this:

"You must remove your animal or vehicle from a national park when asked"

If you own or control an animal in a national park, you must remove it if the Minister or Director-General tells you to. This also applies to vehicles, aircraft, and boats that shouldn't be in the park. If you're driving a vehicle, flying an aircraft, or in charge of a boat that's not allowed in the park, you have to take it out when a ranger asks you to. If you don't do what you're told in these situations, you're breaking the law and can be fined. This is called an infringement offence.

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Topics:

Environment and resources > Conservation

71F: Altering boundary marks or items issued by Minister or Department, or

"Don't mess with official markers or items in national parks"

71H: Littering, or

"Don't drop rubbish in parks - it's against the rules and you can get in trouble"

Part 7AInfringement offences
Infringement offences

71GFailure to remove animal, vehicle, aircraft, or boat

An owner or a person in control of an animal must comply with a notice from the Minister or Director-General requiring the person to remove the animal from a park.
A driver of any vehicle or the pilot of any aircraft or the person in charge of any boat that is illegally in a park must remove the vehicle, aircraft, or boat from the park when required to do so by a ranger.
A person who fails to comply with this section commits an infringement offence.

Notes

Section 71G: inserted, on 21 December 2018, by section 35 of the Conservation (Infringement System) Act 2018 (2018 No 61).