CONSOLIDATED ACTS OF SAMOA 2009

STEVENSON MEMORIAL RESERVE AND MOUNT VAEA SCENIC RESERVE ORDINANCE 1958

Arrangement of Provisions

TITLE

1. Short title
2. Land set aside as a reserve
3. Adding land to Mount Vaea Reserve
4 Regulations
 Schedules

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THE STEVENSON MEMORIAL RESERVE AND MOUNT VAEA SCENIC RESERVE ORDINANCE 1958
1958 No. 10

AN ORDINANCE to set aside certain lands as a reserve in memory of Robert Louis Stevenson and certain other lands as a scenic reserve.

 (22 September 1958)
(Commencement date 22 September 1958)

WHEREAS certain land on Mount Vaea which is the resting place of Robert Louis Stevenson formerly of Vailima (known to the people of Samoa as Tusitala), and of Fanny Stevenson, his wife, has been given to the Government of Samoa by the heir of the said Fanny Stevenson as a memorial to Robert Louis Stevenson.

AND WHEREAS certain adjoining land which is also owned by the Government of Samoa has an intrinsic scenic value.

AND WHEREAS it is desirable that provision be made for the maintenance and control of such lands.

NOW THEREFORE be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa as follows:

1. Short title - This Ordinance may be cited as the Stevenson Memorial Reserve and Mount Vaea Scenic Reserve Ordinance 1958.

 2. Land set aside as a reserve - (1) The lands described in the First and Second Schedules to this Ordinance are hereby set aside as reserves.

 (2) The land described in the First Schedule shall be known as the Stevenson Memorial Reserve and shall be maintained in perpetuity by the Government of Samoa in memory of Robert Louis Stevenson and his love for the people of Samoa.

 (3) The land described in the Second Schedule shall be known as the Mount Vaea Scenic Reserve and shall be maintained in perpetuity by the Government of Samoa as a scenic reserve.

 3. Adding land to Mount Vaea Reserve - The Head of State, acting on the advice of Cabinet, may by warrant under his or her hand and under the Seal of Samoa add any contiguous area of public land to the Mount Vaea Scenic Reserve and such land shall thereupon be deemed to be part of the Mount Vaea Scenic Reserve for the purposes of this Ordinance.

 4. Regulations - (1) The Head of State, acting on the advice of Cabinet, may from time to time make all such regulations as he or she considers necessary or expedient for giving full effect to the provisions of this Ordinance or for the due administration thereof.

 (2) Without limiting the general power to make regulations conferred by subsection (1) it is hereby declared that regulations may be made under that subsection for all or any of the following purposes:

(a) Prescribing the conditions under which public access may be granted to the reserves hereby declared, or either of them;

(b) Prescribing the charge (if any) which may be imposed for admission to the reserves, or either of them;

(c) Prescribing the conditions under which persons may be authorised to act as guides on the reserves, or either of them;

(d) Prescribing the maximum fee that may be charged by any authorised guide for his or her services as a guide;

(e) Making it an offence for any authorised guide to charge a fee for his or her services as a guide in excess of the maximum fee prescribed;

(f) Making it an offence for any person other than an authorised guide to charge a fee for any services as a guide offered or rendered by him or her in respect of the reserves, or either of them;

(g) Making it an offence for any person without prior authority of the Head of State or other person having control of the reserves or either of them to fell any tree on either reserve or to remove any tree therefrom or in any way wilfully cause damage to either reserve;

(h) Delegating control of the reserves or either of them to any person or body of persons;

(i) Prescribing fines not exceeding 1 penalty unit for any breach of the regulations;

 (3) Any person who commits a breach of any regulation made under this Ordinance commits an offence.

 (4) Every person who commits an offence under any regulation made under this Ordinance for which no other penalty is prescribed shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 1 penalty unit.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE
Section 2

All that piece or parcel of land containing an area of one acre (1 acre), more or less, situated at Vaea Mountain, near Apia, in the District of Tuamasaga, described as Parcel 113/79, Flur VIII, Upolu, being part of Court Grant 174 and being all of the land registered in Volume 1, Folio 122, of the Land Register of Samoa.

SECOND SCHEDULE
Section 2

FIRSTLY, all that piece or parcel of land containing an area of sixty-nine acres two roods and thirty perches (69 acres, 2 roods, 30 perches), more or less, situated at Vaea Mountain, near Apia, in the District of Tuamasaga, described as Parcel 280, Flur VIII, Upolu, being part of Court Grant 156 and part of the land registered in Volume 2, Folio 107, of the Land Register of Samoa and more particularly delineated on plan 18 U/VIIIL deposited at the office of the Chief Surveyor at Apia.

Secondly, all that piece or parcel of land containing an area of forty nine acres and thirteen perches (49 acres 13 perches), more o less, situated at Vaea Mountain, near Apia, in the District of Tuamasaga, described as Parcel 114/79, Flur VIII, Upolu, being part of Court Grant 174 and part of the land registered in Volume I, Folio 121, of the Land Register of Samoa and more particularly delineated on a plan in Grund buch IV, Number 415, Folio 6, deposited at the office of the Land Registrar of Samoa.

REVISION NOTES 2008

This law has been generally edited as provided for by section 5 of the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008. The following general revisions have been made –

(a) References to Western Samoa have been amended to Samoa in accordance with an amendment to the Constitution of Samoa in 1997.

(b) The fines have been amended and are stated as penalty units as provided for by the Fines (Review and Amendment) Act 1998.

(c) All references to the male gender have been made gender neutral.

(d) Amendments have been made to conform to modern drafting styles and to use modern language as applied in the laws of Samoa.

(e) Other minor editing has been done in accordance with the lawful powers of the Attorney General.

There were no amendments made to this law since the publication of the Western Samoa Statutes Reprint 1978-1996.

This law has been consolidated and revised by the Attorney General under the authority of the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008 and is an official version of this Act as at 31 December 2007. It is an offence to publish this Act without approval or to make any unauthorised change to an electronic version of this Act.

Aumua Ming Leung Wai
Attorney General of Samoa

Revised and consolidated by Noumea Loretta Afamasaga.
Under the supervision of Teleiai Lalotoa Sinaalamaimaleula Mulitalo (Parliamentary Counsel)

REVISION NOTES 2008 No. 2

The general powers of the Attorney General under section 4 of the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008 is used to insert the commencement date. By virtue of section 8 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1974, in the absence of an expressed commencement date, the date of assent is the commencement date. 

There were no amendments made to this law since the publication of the Consolidated and Revised Statutes of Samoa 2007.

This law has been consolidated and revised by the Attorney General under the authority of the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008 and is an official version of this Act as at 31 December 2008. It is an offence to publish this Act without approval or to make any unauthorised change to an electronic version of this Act.

Aumua Ming Leung Wai
Attorney General of Samoa

Revised and consolidated by the Legislative Drafting Division under the supervision of Teleiai Lalotoa Sinaalamaimaleula Mulitalo (Parliamentary Counsel)

REVISION NOTES 2009

There were no amendments made to this law since the publication of the Consolidated and Revised Statutes of Samoa 2007. 

This law has been consolidated and revised by the Attorney General under the authority of the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008 and is an official version of this Act as at 31 December 2009. It is an offence to publish this Act without approval or to make any unauthorised change to an electronic version of this Act.

Aumua Ming Leung Wai
Attorney General of Samoa

Revised and consolidated under the supervision of Papalii Malietau Malietoa (Parliamentary Counsel)

The Stevenson Memorial Reserve and Mount Vaea Scenic Reserve Ordinance 1958 is administered by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.