The way that is worded, I see no threat there. The same could be craftily worded for the USA too . If someone tried to morph ARPA, and then give you 'dire sounding' suggestions that "some cities are off-limits" etc.... Well gee, they say the same about here too. I mean , sure, what country DOESN'T have cultural heritage laws ? But they apply to public lands. Your link specifically gives ALLOWANCE for md'ing, so I don't find it threatening at all. I highly doubt there is prohibition about finding an old coin on farmer bob's land, nor is an archie likely to be "following you around on farmer bob's land assessing the age of each object you find".
I'm going to continue on as normal. Just thought I'd share the update! [emoji106]
I agree. I was just angry and wanted to share it. I defiantly wasn't ever going to Facebook rant or bring it up anywhere else. Most people don't know much about it and better to keep it that way. If it became mainstream crap it would at the very least spook property owners into not wanting to risk ever giving permission or things like that.Sure. Those boiler plate things are SO easy to surmount (with a little reading correctly), and we ALL know that no one but a few purist archies care about such nonsense. But the problem with citing/linking stuff like that on forums, is this: The skittish crowd reads such things, and develops an "oh no, the sky is falling" notion. And guess what they do next to every other place they travel to ? : They pop in at travel consulates, hotel desks, city halls, border lawyers, etc.... Sending inquiries to bored desk-bound pencil-pusher bureaucrats asking: "Can I metal detect?" type questions.
And then guess what happens ? The "pressing question" gets bandied about, cast into categories like shipwreck salvor, or raiding the pyramids, or snooping into sensitive sites, or exporting gold bars across the border, etc.... Sure enough, someone likewise develops dire sounding "no's" to them as well.
You see how it becomes a self-fulfilling vicious circle loop ? And the more "dire sounding links" circulate, then that merely fuels the same "silly answers", to simply perpetuate the same thing. And then old-timers, who never had a problem or issue, are left scratching their heads saying "since when?".
So I groan when I see such links posted. All it does is to perpetuate the same nonsense you DIDN'T want. And never had anything to do with casual fumble fingers hobbyist level stuff in the first place (so long as you're not snooping into sensitive historic monuments, or crashing archie conventions, etc....)
Typical socialist state.....