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AMENITY LANDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1965 - SECT 18

Byelaws governing land acquired or subject to agreement or covenant.

18.(1) Without prejudice to section 14, the Ministry may, as respects land

(a)acquired under section 1; or

(b)subject to an agreement or covenant under section 2 [or 2A], where the
agreement or covenant so provides;

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), byelaws under this
section

(a)may prohibit or restrict the use of the land, either generally or in a
manner specified in the byelaws, by traffic of any description so specified;

(b)may prohibit or restrict, either generally or in a manner specified in the
byelaws, the use of mechanically-propelled vessels on watercourses in, or
whose shores lie within, any such land; and

(c)may regulate or prohibit the lighting of fires on the land;

(d)where a camping site, caravan park or parking place is provided under
section 3, may provide for the use of that site, park or place under such
conditions as may be specified in the byelaw; and

(e)may regulate or prohibit the taking away of soil, turf, sand or minerals of
any description from the land.

(3) 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 any land of
the kind referred to in subsection (1) 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.

(4) In this section "watercourse" includes tidal and coastal waters, rivers,
canals, lakes and reservoirs.

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