Cap 208A reg 7 Control of fires etc. (Country Parks and Special Areas Regulations; COUNTRY PARKS ORDINANCE)

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Chapter:	208A	Title:	Country Parks and Special Areas Regulations	Gazette Number:	E.R. 2 of 2012
Regulation:	7	Heading:	Control of fires etc.	Version Date:	02/08/2012

(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—

(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;