Rick, I don't doubt there are laws & rules there. And for that matter, consider that .... if someone so-desired, they could create a similar "dire sounding post" about the USA too. By citing ARPA, and interviewing purist archies about all the "dire consequences that could befall you". And then cite scary stories of some USA hunter who got his chops busted for hunting a sandbox, and so-forth.
It's just that when I see 2 sentence posts, like your post #7 here, that *only* cite the bad news , yet don't give the rest of the story (that that is very limited in scope, and scores of people don't need permits, nor have to "turn things in" blah blah), then .... here's what I see happening, as an example :
It was very similar in the USA in the early 1980s. That was the the TH'ing magazines seemed to *first* start "sounding the alarm". With stories of isolated incidents of someone, in a far away state, getting in some sort of hassle. Or some law that was being introduced somewhere, etc... The FMDAC was formed at about the same time to raise solidarity (encouraging you to "write your congressman", etc...). ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE VERY NOBLE ! Ie.: good that we stand in solidarity and educate each other, eh ?
But oddly, the MERE FACT of these isolated incidents being reported (with a "coming to a town near you" tone), had an odd effect : It seems that md'rs everywhere now began rushing to seek clarifications in their own locales (after all, you "don't want to get arrested like the story you just read"). And lo & behold, it started to become a self-fulfilling vicious circle. Ie.: "No's" passed out, where it had never been an issue before. Hhhhhmmm.
That is why, when I see "stern warnings" of "severe legal consequences" passed out for a country where there is NO SHORTAGE of md'rs who don't have a care in the world, that : I fear the mere suggestion has this psychological effect. Sure as heck, people take the warnings to heart, and start grovelling where-not-needed .
... from the Land of 10,000 Lakes - Minnesota, USA! 
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