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FORESTRY ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1953 - SECT 14

Forest parks.

14.(1) The Ministry may with the consent of the Ministry of Finance by
regulation declare that any land owned by the Ministry shall be treated as a
Northern Ireland forest park (in this section referred to as "a forest park")
[or as a Northern Ireland forest recreation area (in this section referred to
as "a forest recreation area")], and thereupon the public shall have access to
that land subject to and in accordance with such byelaws as may be made under
this section.

[(1A) Sub-section (1) shall apply to land held by the Department under a lease
in like manner as it applies to land owned by the Department but nothing in
this section shall authorise anything which is contrary to the provisions of
the lease.

(1B) For the purpose of improving the amenity of land acquired by the
Department under this Act or under any other enactment or otherwise, the
Department may provide on that land such facilities as it considers desirable
for such improvement and, without prejudice to the generality of this power,
such facilities may include

(a)parking places, caravan parks, camping sites, shelters and lavatories;

(b)meals and refreshment;

(c)viewing points for the public, open spaces, footpaths and bridlepaths;

(d)the planting of trees to enhance the landscape;

(e)the provision of nature trails, arboreta, wildlife enclosures,
interpretative centres, forest conservation areas, scenic drives;

(1C) The Department may, with the approval of the Department of Finance,
impose such charges on persons entering all or any of the forest parks or
forest recreation areas or making use of any facility provided as it considers
reasonable.]

(2) The Ministry may make byelaws

(a)prescribing the times during which the public shall have access to forest
parks [or forest recreation areas];

(b)making such provision as may appear to the Ministry to be necessary for the
preservation of trees or timber in forest parks [or forest recreation areas];

(c)prohibiting or regulating any act or thing tending to injury or
disfigurement of forest parks [or forest recreation areas] or the amenities
thereof;

(d)without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this
sub-section, providing for the reasonable use of forest parks [or forest
recreation areas] by the public for the purposes of exercise and recreation.

(3) The Ministry may authorise persons appointed or employed by the Ministry
to exercise such powers and perform such duties as the Ministry may consider
necessary for the enforcement of byelaws made under this section, and in
particular any person so authorised may after due warning remove or exclude
from any forest park [or forest recreation area] a person who commits, or whom
he reasonably suspects of committing, an offence against any byelaw made under
this section or against the section which, by virtue of sub-section (1) of
section fifty-seven of the Summary Jurisdiction and Criminal Justice Act
(Northern Ireland), 1935, was substituted for section four of the
Vagrancy Act, 1824.

(4) A person who commits an offence against any byelaw made under this
section, or who obstructs any person authorised in accordance with sub-section
(3) of this section, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and
shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding [#100]
and, for a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding [#2] in respect
of each day during which the offence continues.[

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