- Laws of Fiji

Last Updated: 1 August 2020

[LG 108,310] Public parks19

(1) No person other than an authorised officer or employee of the Council shall in any public park—

(a)cut, pluck, injure or destroy any turf, tree, bush, shrub, flower, plant or other thing in or upon any part thereof, or dig, cut or remove any sod, turf, loam, sand, gravel or other substance;
(b)negligently or wilfully, injure, deface or remove any seat, notice, notice board, post, chair, railing, fence, barrier or the thing erected or placed therein by or with the authority of the Council;
(c)post or paint any bill, placard or notice;
(d)climb any tree;
(e)wilfully obstruct any entrance, throughfare or walk;
(f)wilfully interfere with the authorised user or with any game or sport permitted by the Council;
(g)sell or offer or expose for sale any food or other goods without the prior permission of the Council or an authorised officer;
(h)deliver or read any public lecture, prayer, sermon or address of any kind or hold or take part in or cause any public assemblage without the prior permission of the Council and then only at such times and places as the Council may permit;
(i)draw, take or drive any truck, car, motorcycle, bicycle, scooter, wheel barrow, carriage or other vehicle, other than an invalid’s chair or child’s perambulator or push cart, without the prior permission of the Council or an authorised officer;
(j)bathe, wade or wash in any such pond or pool therein or wilfully take, injure or destroy, or attempt to take, injure or destroy, any fish in any such pond or pool;
(k)throw or deposit, or cause or suffer to be thrown or deposited, in a pavilion any litter, garbage or offensive matter, except in a receptacle provided by the Council for that purpose;
(l)aid in or abet any act or thing which may not be specifically mentioned in these By-laws and which may tend to the injury or disfigurement or to interfere with the use and enjoyment by the public for the purpose of exercise or recreation.

(2) No person shall in any public park—

(a)play at or engage in any game or exercise in such a manner as to injure any path, turf, tree, shrub, flower, plant, building or other structure or thing or upon any part;
(b)wilfully obstruct any officer or employee of the Council in the execution of any work in connection with such public park.

(3) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with this by-law commits an offence.