Section 27, Conservation Trust Fund Act, 2012

(1) The Authority may by statutory instrument makeregulations as it considers necessary or expedient for giving effect to the provisions of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), regulations made thereunder may provide for the following matters: (a) the operation and management of the National Protected Area; (b) prescribing applications forms, licences, permits, certificates, registers, returns and other forms that may be required for the purposes of the operation and management of the National Protected Area; (c) the prohibition, restriction, control or regulation of entry into, passage through or sojourn in the National Protected Area; (d) the control of persons, or animals (including domestic animals) in the National Protected Area or part any part t h e r e o f , either permanently or temporarily; (e) the prohibition, restriction, control or regulation of burning of vegetation or the cutting, felling or removal of timber in or from the National Protected Area or any part thereof; (f) the prohibition, restriction, control or regulation or the introduction into, passage or conveyance through or keeping within the National Protected Area or any part thereof, of any domestic animal; (g) the prohibition, restriction, control or regulation of the possession or use of weapons in the National Protected Area or part any part thereof; (h) the fees to be paid, if any, by persons entering in the National Protected Area or part any part thereof, or to be paid in respect of the doing of any specified act therein, or the use of any article or facility therein; 18 19 Constitution of National Protected Area. Regulations. (i) the restriction, control or regulation of hunting or capture of animals in the National Protected Area or any part thereof, and the terms and conditions under which animals may be hunted or captured therein; (j) the fees to be paid for such hunting or capture or in respect of the doing of any specified thing in the National Protected Area or any part thereof, or the use of’ any article or facility provided therein; (k) prescribing the terms and conditions to be complied with by the holder of any licence or permit in respect of the doing of any specified thing in the National Protected Area or any part thereof, or the use of’ any article or facility provided therein; (l) the application of measures for preventing the transmission of contagious diseases from domestic to wild animals in the National Protected Area or any part thereof; (m) the destruction of the eggs of crocodiles and poisonous snakes in the National Protected Area or any part thereof; (n) notification and returns to be made of animals killed in National Protected Area or any part thereof, and the persons by whom such returns are to be made; and Penalty. 20 21 (o) the protection of the declared protected species in the National Protected Area or any part thereof. (3) Different Regulations may be made in respect of different animals or classes or species of animals or in respect of the same animals or class or species of animals in different circumstances or in respect of different areas or particular areas in the National Protected Area or any part thereof.