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Tuesday, 29 October 2013] 48999 Deletion of section 10 relating to the designation of stateland for certain purposesThis clause contains very similar provisions to section 8 of theAct and appears to achieve the same purpose and wascreating confusion. It is, therefore, being deleted as theprovisions in section 8 can achieve the same objectives.10 Amendment of section 13: Access fees to coastal publicpropertySection 13 of the Act currently obliges a person to obtain theapproval of the Minister before charging access fees tocoastal public property. The current provisions result inmultiple individual applications being made to the Minister forpermission to charge any access fees to coastal publicproperty. Fee payers would include municipalities, boat-clubs,events organisers, etc. This would result in hundreds ofapplications which need to be responded to and delays inprocessing such applications may negatively impact onmunicipal revenue. To streamline the process and standardiseaccess fees, it is proposed that the Minister publish amaximum fee and anyone who wishes to charge a higher feewould only then have to apply to the Minister, justifying theneed. In addition, it is made clear that access fees are not tobe confused with the costs of tickets for commercial activitiesthat take place on or in coastal public property, e.g. a trip toseal island or a beach volley ball event. The term “access fee”has therefore been defined. In addition, an offence has beencreated in relation to blocking public access to coastal publicproperty.ANNOUNCEMENTS, TABLINGS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS NO 147─2013