Hong Kong Regulations

MARINE PARKS AND MARINE RESERVES REGULATION - SECT 3

Prohibition of fishing, hunting and collecting animals and plants, etc.

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Subject to subsection (1A), no person shall fish or hunt, injure, remove
or take away any animal or plant by any means in or from a marine park or
marine reserve. (L.N. 182 of 2002)

(1A) A person may-

   (a)  fish in or from a marine park under and in accordance with a permit
        granted under section 17(3); or

   (b)  fish in or from a special zone specified in column 2 of Part 1 of
        Schedule 1, subject to compliance with the conditions specified,
        opposite to the special zone, in column 3 of that Part. (L.N. 182 of
        2002)

(2) No person shall take, remove, injure, destroy or wilfully disturb a nest,
egg, young, or nesting ground of any protected marine and  coastal species in
a marine park or marine reserve.

(3) A person within a marine park or marine reserve, who is in possession of a
fishing or hunting device, plant, fish or animal, in circumstances that give
rise to a reasonable suspicion that an offence under subsection (1) or (2) has
been committed, will be presumed to have committed the offence in the absence
of evidence to the contrary. (Enacted 1996)