AMENITY LANDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 14 Byelaws for protection of nature reserves.

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AMENITY LANDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 14

Byelaws for protection of nature reserves.

14.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Ministry may make
byelaws for the protection of any nature reserve in relation to which a
declaration under section 13(1) is in force.

(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), byelaws under this section may

(a)provide for prohibiting or restricting the entry into, or movement within,
the nature reserve of persons, vehicles, boats and animals;

(b)prohibit or restrict the killing, taking, molesting or disturbance of
living creatures of any description in the nature reserve, the taking,
destruction or disturbance of eggs of any such creature, the taking of, or
interference with, vegetation of any description in the nature reserve, or the
doing of anything therein which will interfere with the soil or damage any
object in the reserve;

(c)prohibit or restrict the shooting of birds or of birds of any description
within such area surrounding or adjoining the nature reserve (whether the area
be of land or of sea) as is requisite for the protection of the
nature reserve;

(d)regulate or prohibit the taking away of soil, turf, sand or minerals of any
description;

(e)prohibit or restrict, or provide for prohibiting or restricting, the
lighting of fires in the nature reserve, or the doing of anything likely to
cause fire in the nature reserve; and

(f)provide for the issue, on such terms and subject to such conditions as may
be specified in the byelaws, of permits authorising entry into the
nature reserve or the doing of anything therein which would otherwise be
unlawful, whether under the byelaws or otherwise.

(3) Before making byelaws under this section the Ministry shall consult the
Nature Reserves Committee.

(4) Byelaws under this section shall not interfere with the exercise by any
person of a right vested in him as owner, lessee or occupier of land in a
nature reserve or with the exercise of any public right of way or of any
statutory functions of any local or public authority in relation to any such
land.

(5) Where the exercise of any right vested in a person by reason of his being
entitled to any estate in land is prevented or hindered by virtue of byelaws
made under subsection (2)(c), he shall be entitled to receive from the
Ministry in respect thereof compensation calculated by reference to the
depreciation of the value of that estate in land.

(6) Any dispute arising on a claim for compensation under subsection (5)
shall, in the absence of agreement be referred to and determined by the Lands
Tribunal.

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AMENITY LANDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 14