Beach Control (Prevention of Danger) Regulations

CHAPTER 45 THE BEACH CONTROL (PREVENTION ON DANGER) REGUALTIONS Arrangement of Regulations Regulations 1. Citation. 2. Interpretation. 3. Animals on Foreshore. 4. Motor Boats or Water Skiing. 5. Beach Control Officers. S.R.O. 25/1976 BEACH CONTROL ACT THE BEACH CONTROL (PREVENTION OF DANGER) REGULATIONS MADE UNDER SECTION 9 OF THE BEACH CONTROL ACT. 1. CITATION. These Regulations may be cited as the Beach Control (Prevention of Danger) Regulations. 2. INTERPRETATION. In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires. “animal” includes horse, mule, donkey, cow, pig, sheep, goat and dog. 3. ANIMALS ON FORESHORE (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2) any person who, otherwise that in accordance with a licence granted under section 5 of the Beach Control Act, causes or permits and animal to be on the foreshore or adjoining land to which members of the public are entitled to have access shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding $500.00 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. (2) Dogs attached to a lead or leash may be taken on the foreshore or adjoining lands to which members of the public are entitled to have access. 4. MOTOR BOATS OR WATER SKIING. (1) No person shall water ski or drive any motor boat, whether or not towing a water skier, within two hundred feet of the low water mark in front of or alongside any beach to which the public habitually resort for purpose of swimming, except when the motor boat or water skier is either (a) approaching or leaving a marina, dock, jetty, wharf or other installation of a permanent nature intended for the reception of boats; or (b) proceeding at a speed not exceeding three knots, with due care and attention and reasonable consideration for persons actually, or who may reasonably be expected to be, swimming within two hundred feet of the low water mark; or (c) towing a water skier in a lane clearly marked off with bouys and ropes of a pattern and in an area approved by the Minister; or (d) in distress or rending assistance to some other person in distress. (2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months. (5) BEACH CONTROL OFFICERS. The Minister may from time to time appoint Beach Control Officers whose functions shall include the duty of enforcing these regulations and the provisions of the Beach Control Act. Made the 13th day of October, 1976