National Parks and Nature Reserves (Amendment No. 3) Act 5735, 1974

(No. 19) NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVES (AMENDMENT No. 3) LAW, 5735-1974 * 1. In the National Parks and Nature Reserves Law, 5723-1963 1) Additio11 of (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Law"), Chapter Six shall be chapter. re-marked as Chapter Seven and the following chapter shall be in serted before it: Definitions. Declaration of national site. Regulations as to national sites. "CHAPTER Srx: NATIONAL SITES 42B. In this chapter "national site" means a structure or group of structures or a part thereof, including the im mediate vicinity thereof, which are of national historical importance with regard to the develop ment of the Yishuv (the Jewish population of Bretz Yisrael - Tr.); "harm" includes destruction, demolition, damage and alteration of form. 42C. If it appears to the Minister of the Interior that a national site should be protected from harm, he may, in consultation with the Council, declare in Reshumot that it is a national site and, if he deems it necessary to do so, determine its boundaries. The provisions of sections 4 to 8 shall apply mutatis mutandis to national sites. 42D. The Minister of the Interior may, after con sultation with the Council, make regulations pro hibiting the infliction of harm upon a national site and regulating the protection, maintenance, guarding and care thereof either generally or in respect of a particular national site. Passed by the Knesset on the 9th Tevet, 5735 (23rd December, 1974) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 754 of the 19th Tevet (2nd January, 1975), p. 34; the Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok No. 1081 of 5733, p. 424. Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5723, p. 149-LSI vol. XVII, p. 184; Sefer Ha Chukkim of 5724, p. 168 -LSI vol. XVIII, p. 167; Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5728, p. 60 - LSI vol. XX, p. 61. Amendment of section 48. Assignment of tasks. Powers of implementation. 42E. (a) The Minister of the Interior may by order, with the consent of the Minister of Finance, entrust the implementation of provisions of this chapter and of regulations thereunder, in consultation with the Prime Minister, to the Parks Authority, and in con sultation with the Minister of Agriculture, to the Nature Reserves Authority. (b) Such implementation as aforesaid may pro ceed in cooperation with a local authority and also in a place which is not a nature reserve or national park. 42F. For the purpose of implementation entrusted in accordance with section 42E, the implementing body shall have the powers vested in it under this Law.". 2. In section 48 of the principal Law, the words "or nature reserve" shall be replaced by the words "nature reserve or national site". Y ITZCHAK RABIN Prime Minister EFRAYIM KATZIR President of the State AHARONUZAN Minister of Agriculture YOSEFBURG Minister of the Interior