Section 51: Regulations

(1) The Service may, with the approval of the Minister, by regulations, make provisions for-
(a) management principles, other than those specified in section 27 of this Act, for National Parks of a different class other than those contemplated under that section;
(b) the conditions under which any person, vehicle, boat, or animal may enter into, travel through, reside, camp or be kept, as the case may be, in a National Park or any part of a National Park;
(c) the conditions under which a person travelling through or in a National Park on a public road may have in his possession or under his control any firearm or other weapon, ammunition, explosive, trap or poison;
(d) the conditions under which any game animal or species of game animal may be photographed in a National Park;
(e) the regulation or prohibition of lighting of fires in a National Park;
(f) the conditions under which a domestic or wild animal may be brought into or maintained or prohibited in a National Park, and the regulations may prescribe the fees to be charged for the bringing of any domestic or wild animal into the National Park;
(g) the prohibition or control of the introduction into, the cutting or damaging, or the removal from a National Park of any plant or other vegetation, whether alive or dead;
(h) the prohibition or control of the destruction, defacing, damaging or removal of anything, whether animate or inanimate, in or from a National Park;
(i) the fees to be paid for fishing and the conditions under which a person may fish in a National Park;
(j) the rules of conduct and behaviour of persons while in a National Park;
(k) the regulation of traffic on roads, other than public roads, in a National Park;
(l) the carriage of passengers and goods in a National Park, whether for hire or otherwise;
(m) the point at which persons and vehicles may enter or leave and the routes by which they may pass through or over in a National Park on roads, other than public roads;
(n) without prejudice to any other written law, the prohibition, control or regulation of any trade or business carried on in a National Park;
(o) the killing, capturing or impounding of any animal in a National Park and the disposal of the animal;
(p) the conditions under which permission may be granted to members of the public to enter a National Park and the periods during which the National Park shall be open to the public;
(q) the burning and cutting of vegetation, fauna or flora in a National Park;
(r) the control of traffic within and through a National Park;
(s) the fees to be paid by members of the public to enter, reside, camp, take photographs or for the enjoyment of the facilities, provided in a National Park;
(t) the conditions, procedure and eligible officers for the purpose of compounding offences;
(u) the conditions and modalities for prospecting for genetic resources;
(v) the efficient control and management of National Parks, generally.
(2) Regulations made under this section may prescribe a penalty of a fine of not less than N 1,000 but not exceeding N50,000 for the breach of their provisions.
(3) Regulations made pursuant to this section may make different provisions for-
(a) each National Park, as the circumstances of that National Park may require; and
(b) different persons or class of persons or circumstances.