Section 37 — National Parks and Nature Reserves Ordinance, 1998

(a)

the powers and duties of a park officer in regard to—

(i)

the exclusion of members of the public from a national park or a nature reserve or any part thereof;

(ii)

the killing, capturing or impounding of any animals within a national park or a nature reserve and the disposal of such animals;

(iii)

the burning and cutting of plants within a national park or a nature reserve; and

(iv)

the disposal of animal, plant, mineral or other product of the national park or the nature reserve;

(b)

regulating and controlling the taking, hunting, killing, snaring, trapping or capturing any kind of wild life by people with subsisting rights and privileges in a national park or a nature reserve, and regulating and controlling the type of weapons, instruments, contrivances and various other methods which may be used by such people in the taking, shooting or killing of wild life;

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(c)

regulating the activities which can be undertaken for research and other scientific or other purposes inside national parks and nature reserves;

(d)

prescribing the powers, duties, responsibilities and other activities of a Special Park Committee;

(e)

incentives by way of grants or other forms of monetary rewards, to any person or body of persons involved in the supervision, control, and management of a national park or a nature reserve and the protection of wild life, geological and physiographical features therein or to any person who provides information leading to the conviction of any person of any offence under this Ordinance;

(f)

compensation for any interference with the exercise of any rights or privileges recognized under section 11 within a national park;

(g)

the conditions subject to which permission to enter a national park may be granted, and the periods or times during which a national park or any part thereof shall be open to the public;

(h)

the conditions under which the services or attendance of park officers, or the services or attendance of any other person licensed by the Controller, may be obtained by any person entering, passing through so journeying within a national park or a nature reserve, and the fees to be paid for such services or attendance;

(i)

the fees for admission in respect of persons and vehicles entering a national park or a nature reserve, the taking of photographs therein and the circumstances and conditions under which such fees may be waived or reduced;

(j)

the protection and preservation of a national park or a nature reserve and the wild life therein;

(k)

the regulation of traffic in and over a national park or a nature reserve, the carriage of passengers, goods and weapons in a national park or a nature reserve and the points at which people may enter a national park or a nature reserve;

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(l)

the conditions under which, and the persons or officers by whom, in contravention of the provisions of this Ordinance or any regulations made hereunder may be compounded;

(m)

procedure and forms for compounding of offences;

(n)

the demarcation of specific areas within a national park or a nature reserve for the exercise of any rights or privileges recognized under this Ordinance;

(o)

the role and responsibilities of a managing agent appointed under section 25(1);

(p)

anything that may be or is required to be prescribed under this Ordinance.

(2)

Any regulations made under subsection (1) may provide for the punishment of any contravention thereof by penalties not exceeding a fine of five thousand ringgit or imprisonment not exceeding one year.

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