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Designated officers and enforcement
Environmental Protection (Prohibition Of The Open-Burning Of Refuse And Other Combustible Matter) Regulations, reg. 5 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, every member of the Police Department is a designated officer under the Act.
(2) It shall be the duty of every member of the Police Department to enforce, using force if necessary, compliance with these Regulations, and for such purpose any member of the Police Department may, without a warrant–
(a) enter any land; or Environmental Protection 321
(b) arrest any person who contravenes or is suspected on reasonable grounds of contravening these Regulations.
MADE by the Minister responsible for environment this 20th day of April, 2020.
(HON. OMAR FIGUEROA) Minister of Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment, and Sustainable Development (Minister responsible for environment)
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