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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(2) Regulations 5, 6, and 8 hereof and clauses (1) and (3) of Regulation 7 hereof and clause (1) of Regulation 9 hereof and clause (1) of Regulation 11 hereof shall not apply to the Minister or to officers of the Department of Internal Affairs taking, fishing for, or catching fish for the purposes of acclimatization or propagation or for scientific or other purposes, nor to any fish in the possession of the Minister or such officers as aforesaid for any of the said purposes.

14. CAMPING-SITES.

(1) No person shall camp upon or use for a camping-site or otherwise occupy any part of the camping-area otherwise than by virtue of a permit, or permanent-camp license, issued pursuant to these regulations, whether by erecting or bringing thereon any hut, whare, or other structure, or any tent, caravan, motor-car, or otherwise howsoever.

(2) The Minister or his appointee may from time to time, by writing under his hand, appoint the Postmaster at Taupo or at Tokaanu, or any officer of the Department of Internal Affairs or other person, to be a permit officer for the purposes of this regulation.

(3) Applications for permits shall be made personally or in writing to a permit officer, and shall state the period for which a permit is desired, and shall be accompanied with the amount of the fee payable for such permit for the period for which the same is desired, and there shall be produced together with such application the license issued to the person by or on behalf of whom the permit is desired.

(4) The fee for a permit issued for a week or less shall be 2s. 6d., and for a permit issued for more than a week shall be at the rate of 2s. 6d. for every week or part of a week of the period for which the permit is issued.

(5) A permit officer may refuse to issue a permit to any person who within the previous two years has been convicted of any breach of the provisions of any Act relating to fishing for trout or of any regulation made thereunder, or, subject to the direction of the Minister, to any person whom in his discretion he considers unsuitable to hold a permit, and the Minister or his appointee may forbid the issue of a permit to any person whom in his discretion he considers unsuitable to receive a permit.

(6) Every permit shall be issued under the hand of a permit officer, and shall set out the period for which the permit is granted, and shall be generally in the form set forth in the Third Schedule hereto.

(7) No permit shall be transferable, and no person shall assign, transfer, or make over to any other person any permit, or any rights conferred on him by any permit, or assign, demise, sublet, or otherwise assure, or purport so to do, to any other person, any part of the camping-area occupied by him by virtue of a permit, or use any part of the camping-area otherwise than for his own personal occupation and for that of any persons occupying a camp with him as provided by clause 15 of this regulation.

(8) Permits may be issued at any time between the 1st day of October in any year and the close of the open season in the following year.

(9) No permit shall be issued except to a person who is the holder of a whole-season license for the time being in force, save that at any time during the open season a permit may be issued to the holder of a weekly or week-end license, but such permit shall expire with the expiration of such license.

(10) (a) No permit granted during the close season shall take effect prior to the day before the commencement of the ensuing open season.

(b) No permit shall continue in force after the day following the expiration of the open season during or prior to which it was granted.

(c) No permit shall continue in force after the day following the expiration of the period for which it was granted.

(11) Every holder of a permit shall on demand produce such permit to any ranger, constable, officer of the Department of Internal Affairs, or permit officer.

(12) If the license issued to the holder of any permit shall become void pursuant to these regulations, then such permit shall thereupon likewise become void and of no effect.

(13) If the holder of any permit shall commit a breach of or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this regulation, then, without prejudice to the provisions of the two last preceding clauses of this regulation, the Minister or his appointee may, in his discretion, revoke such permit, and, by writing under his hand, give notice of such revocation to the holder, and such notice may be served either by delivering the same to the holder personally or by forwarding the same by registered post addressed to the holder at his usual or last known place of abode in New Zealand, and upon service of such notice the permit shall become void and of no effect.

(14) Every permit shall be deemed to operate as a license to the permit-holder to erect and maintain, and, together with not more than five persons in addition to the permit-holder, to occupy a camp on any part of the camping-area, for the term therein set out, subject to all the conditions and restrictions contained in this regulation.

(15) Every permit shall also be deemed to operate as a special license within the meaning of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of the special Act, and to confer on the holder thereof a full and free right of way (in common with all other persons having the like right) between any site for the time being occupied by the permit-holder and the shore of Lake Taupo or the most convenient public road at all times, so long as such permit is in force, along and over the land referred to in the said paragraph (b) for himself, his family, visitors, and servants, and all persons having business with him at such site.

(16) Notwithstanding the rights conferred by any permit, there shall be reserved a full and free right of way for all persons at all lawful times to go, pass, and repass along the bank or margin of any river or stream and to use the same for a reasonably sufficient width from the water’s edge for purposes of fishing and for purposes of access to any other site, and no permit-holder shall erect or maintain or cause or suffer to be erected or maintained anything that may in any way obstruct or impede the use of such bank or margin for such width and for such purposes as aforesaid.

(17) A permit-holder shall be entitled to erect, maintain, and occupy, on any part of the camping-area, a camp comprising one or more tents or other structures of a temporary nature and to remove the same at any time prior to the expiration or sooner determination of the permit, doing as little damage as possible to the ground thereby, and making good before the expiration or sooner determination of the permit any damage to the ground done thereby:

Provided that no permit-holder shall erect, maintain, or occupy at any one time more than one camp, nor erect, maintain, or occupy as a camp any part of the camping-area situate within one chain of any camp already for the time being erected and occupied in any part of the camping-area, except with the consent of the permit-holder, or holder of a permanent-camp license, in occupation of such last-mentioned camp.

(18) No permit-holder shall—

(a) Use any site or cause or suffer the same to be used for the purpose of any trade or business or for any illegal or improper purpose or otherwise howsoever than as a camping-site.

(b) Use any site or cause or suffer the same to be used in any manner that shall or may be or become a nuisance, damage, annoyance, or inconvenience to or in any way interfere with the quiet and comfort of the occupier of any other site, or the owners or occupiers of any adjoining or neighbouring land.

(c) Destroy or damage or cause or suffer to be destroyed or damaged any trees, growing timber, or bushes on any site or any adjoining or neighbouring land.

(d) Keep, or cause, or suffer to be kept, or to be upon or about any site any dog or other animal without the express written permission of a permit officer, which permission may at any time be revoked.

(19) Every permit-holder shall at all times during the continuance of his permit—

(a) Provide and maintain sufficient sanitary accommodation for any site for the time being occupied by him and take all steps and do all things necessary or desirable to prevent any river or stream or any water-supply from being polluted through the use or occupation of the site.

(b) Keep any site for the time being occupied by him and all erections thereon in a clean, orderly, and tenantable condition.

(c) Use all reasonable precautions to prevent damage by fire either to the camping-area, or to adjoining or neighbouring land, or to anything growing or erected thereon respectively.

(d) After he or any member of his family, or any visitor, or servant, or any person occupying a camp with him as provided by clause (15) of this regulation, has opened or passed through any gate or opening in a fence upon the camping-area, securely close and fasten the same.

(20) Every permit-holder shall, prior to his leaving any site, destroy or bury all refuse and articles and matter of any kind not removed by him from the site, save that it shall be lawful to leave erected thereon any tent-framework, whare, fireplace, or similar structure, provided always that no right to the ownership or possession of anything so left shall enure to the permit-holder against the Crown or against any person being at any time in lawful occupation of the said site.

(21) Every permit-holder shall, without affecting any liability he may have incurred for a breach of these regulations, be liable for any damage suffered by any person through such breach, and for any damage done to the camping-area, or to anything affixed thereto or growing thereon, by him or any member of his family, or any visitor or servant or any person occupying a camp with him as provided by clause (15) of this regulation.

(22) The production of a duplicate copy of a permit signed by a permit officer shall be prima facie evidence that such permit was duly issued to the person named therein and that such person thereupon became a permit-holder within the meaning of this regulation.

(23) Nothing contained in the foregoing clauses of this regulation shall be deemed to restrict the right of the Crown to let for camping-sites any part of the land referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of the special Act.