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Start Date: 05/03/2002 End Date: 01/01/2999
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Index Entry : Conservation and Land Management Regulations 2002\Part 2 - Protection of the environment\Division 4 - Disturbance of the landscape
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temp:Conservation+and+Land+Management+Regulations+2002+-+37.pdf&3D557B64E74E183948256BAD003189B931. Damage etc. to naturally occurring features
(1) A person must not, without lawful authority ¾
(a) cause any significant damage or disturbance to a naturally occurring feature on CALM land;
(b) damage or disturb any naturally occurring feature on CALM land in a way that causes, or creates a potential for, adverse consequences to or in relation to CALM land; or
(c) remove any naturally occurring feature from CALM land.
Penalty: $2 000.
(2) An authorised officer who believes on reasonable grounds that a naturally occurring feature found in the possession of a person is involved in the commission of an offence against subregulation (1) may direct that person to surrender the naturally occurring feature to the authorised officer immediately.
(3) A person must comply with a direction under subregulation (2).
Penalty: $2 000.
(4) In this regulation ¾
}naturally occurring feature~ includes ¾
(a) a fossil;
(b) a mineral specimen, meteorite and tektite;
(c) a speleotherm and speleogen;
(d) a termite mound;
(e) guano;
(f) a stromatolite, sedimentary deposit associated with stromatolites or other sedimentary deposit, and cyano-bacteria responsible for building stromatolites which are present in stromatolites; and
(g) dead marine shell, dead coral, dead sea urchin, coralline algae and live coral organisms living in dead coral.