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Country Parks and Special Areas Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
7. Control of fires etc.
(1) No person shall within a country park or special area-
(a) carry or have in his possession any lantern, cooking stove or other similar apparatus which uses flame except in a designated barbecue site or a designated camping site or when travelling from the country park or special area boundary to such designated site or from such site to the entrance;
(b) carry or have in his possession any flare, flame-gun, fire-balloon or other similar device;
(c) light, or use any fire, or be a member of a group which uses any fire, whether or not lit by any person in the group, except in a designated barbecue site or in a designated camping site; or
(d) discard any match, lighted cigarette, pipe ash or other substance in a manner likely to cause a fire.
(2) The Authority may, if he considers it necessary in the interests of good management so to do, prohibit the lighting or the use of fire in any country park or special area or part thereof, including any designated barbecue site or a designated camping site and display notices of such prohibition in English and in Chinese in such prominent positions as he shall determine.
(3) Subregulation (1)(a) and (c) shall not apply to any person who, being ordinarily resident within a country park or special area--
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(a) has in his possession any lantern, cooking stove or other similar apparatus which uses flame within his dwelling place or its curtilage;
(b) carries any lantern, cooking stove or other similar apparatus which uses flame from the boundary of the country park or special area to his dwelling house or from his dwelling house to such entrance;
(c) lights or uses any fire within his dwelling house or its curtilage.
Protection of vegetation and soil
(1) Subject to subregulation (2), no person shall within a country park or special area, except in accordance with a permit in writing granted by the Authority-
(a) cut, pick or uproot any plant or part of a plant, whether living or dead;
(b) dig, cultivate or disturb the soil; or
(c) sow or plant any seeds or plants, whether as a crop or not.
(2) Subregulation (1) shall not apply to a person who cuts, picks, uproots, digs, cultivates or disturbs any plant, part of a plant or soil or who sows or plants any seeds or plants under a Crown lease or a licence or permit granted