Protected Areas Act 2011 (No. 14 of 2011).

Legislation

关键词: Ecosystem preservation;    Climate change;    Environmental planning;    Land-use planning;    Indigenous peoples;    Traditional rights/customary rights;    Sustainable development;    Basic legislation;    Management/conservation;    Protected area;    National parks;    Institution;    Marine protected areas;    Hunting/capture;    Community management;    Protection of environment;   

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来源: ECOLEX

【 摘 要 】

This Act provides for the establishment of the Protected Areas Commission, the Protected Areas Trust and a Trust Fund and empowers the Minister to declare national protected areas. It applies to the territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, fishery zone and continental shelf as defined in the Maritime Zones Act 2010. The Act alos provides with respect to the National Protected Areas System and allows village councils to apply to the Commission for village lands or any part thereof to be recognis