Parks and Trees Act 2005 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Conservation of Trees and Plants
17. Maintenance of heritage road green buffers
Feedback & supportIt is the function and duty of the Board to manage and maintain all heritage road green buffers and carry out all acts necessary thereto.
Board
“Board” means the National Parks Board established under the National Parks Board Act 1996;
For the purpose of managing and maintaining heritage road green buffers, the Commissioner or any officer, employee of or other person authorised in writing by the Board has the right, at any reasonable time, to enter upon any heritage road green buffer that is State land and do all things as are reasonably necessary for the management and maintenance of the heritage road green buffer.
heritage road green buffer
“heritage road green buffer” means any area designated by the Minister as such under section 16(1);
Subject to subsection (4), where a heritage road green buffer, or any part of it, lies within any premises other than State land, the Commissioner or any officer, employee of or other person authorised in writing by the Board has the right, at any reasonable time, to enter upon the heritage road green buffer or any part thereof for the purpose of —
premises
“premises” means —(a)any building or land or part thereof; or(b)any place (whether enclosed or built on or not) and includes any place situated underground or under water;
ascertaining whether any of the functions conferred by this section on the Board should or may be exercised, including taking photographs of the premises and any property or material found thereon and such other steps as he or she may consider necessary without involving any search or seizure of any premises, thing or person; and
taking any action or carrying out any work that is reasonably necessary for the management and maintenance of the heritage road green buffer.
The right to enter upon any premises under subsection (3) may be exercised if, and only if, the Commissioner or any officer, employee of or other person authorised in writing by the Board has given notice of his or her intention to perform the Board’s function and discharge its duty under this section to the occupier of the premises or any person having any estate, right, share or interest in the premises.
Commissioner
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Parks and Recreation appointed under section 4(1);
A notice under subsection (4) must be in writing and is deemed to be given to and received by an occupier if it is affixed to a conspicuous part of the premises to be entered.
occupier
“occupier”, in relation to any premises, means —(a)the person in actual occupation of the premises (whether or not the person is also the owner thereof) or, if there is no person in actual occupation, the person entitled to possession of the premises; and(b)if there is more than one occupier of the premises — any one of the occupiers;