Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01033:reg:7:p21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01033
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7 (pt 21/46)
Character Range: 280019–282637

Penalty: 50 penalty units.
 (3) The Director may determine that a person using a portable barbecue or stove, a fireplace, a fireplace of a kind, or a place mentioned in subregulation (2):
 (a) must ensure that there is no flammable material within a specified distance from the barbecue or stove, fireplace, fireplace of a kind, or place; and
 (b) may only use the barbecue or stove in a specified place; and
 (c) may only use the barbecue or stove, fireplace, fireplace of a kind, or place, in a specified manner; and
 (d) may only use the barbecue or stove, fireplace, fireplace of a kind, or place, during a specified period.
 (4) A person commits an offence if the person who lights, maintains or uses a fire in a Commonwealth reserve leaves the fire unattended.
Penalty: 50 penalty units.
 (5) A person who lights or uses a fire for cooking or heating in part of a Commonwealth reserve commits an offence if the person uses any fuel that is prohibited under the management plan in operation for the reserve to be used in that part of the reserve.
Penalty: 15 penalty units.
 (6) An offence against subregulation (2), (4) or (5) is an offence of strict liability.

12.30B  Signs relating to lighting fires
  If the Director makes a determination under subregulation 12.30A(3), the Director must erect a sign, as near as is practicable to the fireplace or place, specifying:
 (a) the conditions set out in the determination; and
 (b) that the fireplace or place is not to be used during a period declared by the Director under subregulation 12.30(2) to be a period of total fire ban.

12.31  Public gatherings
 (1) A person must not organise or attend a public gathering of more than 15 persons in a Commonwealth reserve.
Penalty: 10 penalty units.
 (2) Subregulation (1) does not apply to a gathering that is:
 (a) organised by the Director; or
 (b) a family group or family groups; or
 (c) a group or gathering, or a type of group or gathering, determined by the Director under subregulation (3).
 (3) For paragraph (2)(c), the Director may make a determination specifying that a group or gathering, or a type of group or gathering, is not a gathering to which subregulation (1) applies.

12.32  Burials
 (1) A person may bury human remains in a Commonwealth reserve only:
 (a) in a burial area determined by the Director under subregulation (3); and
 (b) in accordance with a permit issued by the Director.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
 (2) However, subregulation (1) does not apply to a burial that the Director has authorised to take place as an emergency to prevent endangering public safety or health.
 (3) For