boundary (excluding sea areas) in accordance with the Park Plan.
2. The provisions of paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 5 shall be applied correspondingly to
the designation of the Special Zone and dissolution of its designation, and to the
alteration of its boundary. In this case, the "Minister of the Environment" mentioned
in paragraph 3 of the same article shall read as the "Minister of the Environment and
the governor of the prefecture concerned," and "official gazette" in the same
paragraph shall read as "official gazette or prefectural official report", respectively.
3. Within the Special Zone (with the exception of the Special Protection Zone;
hereinafter the same in this article), the activities coming under any of the following
items shall not be carried out without the permission of the Minister of the
Environment in case of the National Park and that of the governor of the prefecture
in case of the Quasi-national Park; provided that the activity, that has already been
under way at the time of the designation of the Special Zone concerned or the
expansion of its boundary, (except the work mentioned in item 5 below), or the activity
mentioned in item 5, that has already been under way at the time of the designation
of the lakes, marshes or swamps prescribed in the same item, or the activity
mentioned in item 7, that has already been under way at the time of the designation
of the materials prescribed in the same item, or the activity carried out as the
emergency measure in case of disaster shall be excepted from this provision.
(1) Constructing, reconstructing or extending structures.
(2) Felling trees and bamboos.
(3) Mining minerals or extracting soil and stones.
(4) Causing increase or decrease of the water-level or quantity of water of rivers, lakes,
marshes, swamps and wetlands etc.
(5) Discharging polluted or waste water through the sewage disposal facilities into the
lakes, marshes or swamps and wetlands designated by the Minister of the
Environment or within a distance of one kilometer from there discharging the same
through the sewage disposal facilities into the water running into the designated
lakes marshes or swamps and wetlands etc.
(6) Putting up or setting up advertisements or those similar to them, or showing of
advertisements or those similar to them on the structures and the like.
(7) Accumulating or storing soil and stones or other materials designated by the
Minister of the Environment in the open air.
(8) Reclaiming the surface of water or reclaiming by drainage.