Hong Kong Regulations

COUNTRY PARKS AND SPECIAL AREAS REGULATIONS - REGULATION 7

Control of fires etc.

(1) No person shall within a country park or special area-

   (a)  carry or have in his possession any lantern, cooking stove or other
        similar apparatus which uses flame except in a designated barbecue 
        site or a designated camping site or when travelling from the country
        park or special area boundary to such designated site or from such
        site to the entrance;

   (b)  carry or have in his possession any flare, flame-gun, fire-balloon or
        other similar device;

   (c)  light, or use any fire, or be a member of a group which uses any fire,
        whether or not lit by any person in the group, except in a
        designated barbecue site or in a designated camping site; or

   (d)  discard any match, lighted cigarette, pipe ash or other substance in a
        manner likely to cause a fire.

(2) The Authority may, if he considers it necessary in the interests of good
management so to do, prohibit the lighting or the use of fire in any country
park or special area or part thereof, including any designated barbecue site
or a designated camping site and display notices of such prohibition in
English and in Chinese in such prominent positions as he shall determine.

(3) Subregulation (1)(a) and (c) shall not apply to any person who, being
ordinarily resident within a country park or special area-

   (a)  has in his possession any lantern, cooking stove or other similar
        apparatus which uses flame within his dwelling place or its curtilage;

   (b)  carries any lantern, cooking stove or other similar apparatus which
        uses flame from the boundary of the country park or special area to
        his dwelling house or from his dwelling house to such entrance;

   (c)  lights or uses any fire within his dwelling house or its curtilage.