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GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2003 (NO. 1) 2003 NO. 20

STATUTORY RULES 2003 No. 20

ISSUED BY AUTHORITY OF THE MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)

Subsection 66(1) of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 ("the Act") provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act nor with a zoning plan, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

Paragraph 66(2)(o) of the Act provides that regulations may be made to regulate the use of vessels in, and the passage of vessels through, the Marine Park, and the landing and use of aircraft in, and the flying of aircraft over, the Marine Park.

The purpose of the Regulations is to describe a further cruise ship anchorage in the Whitsundays Planning Area in the Central Section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

The Regulations describe for the purposes of the Whitsundays Plan of Management, an additional cruise ship anchorage in the Whitsundays Planning Area. There are already 7 areas described as cruise ship anchorages in Schedule 9 to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983 ("the principal Regulations").

Cruise ship anchorages are areas that have been identified and set aside for cruise ships to anchor with a permit.

Details of the Regulations are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides that the name of the Regulations is the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1).

Regulation 2 provides that the Regulations commence on gazettal.

Regulation 3 provides that Schedule 1 amends the principal Regulations.

Schedule 1 - Amendments

Amendment 1 amends Schedule 9 to the principal Regulations by inserting a new clause 9 containing the boundary description for a new cruise ship anchorage in the Whitsundays Planning Area. The new cruise ship anchorage is known as the "Fitzalan Passage Cruise Ship Anchorage".

The Regulations commence on gazettal.