Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (No-anchoring Areas) Regulations 2024 (Cth)

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (No‑anchoring Areas) Regulations 2024

I, Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 29 August 2024

Frances Adamson AC

Administrator

By Her Excellency’s Command

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (No-anchoring Areas) Regulations 2024.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	31 August 2024

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 2019

1. 1

   Subsection 5(1) (definition of no‑anchoring area)

Repeal the definition, substitute:

no‑anchoring area means an area of the Marine Park that is located inshore of, or is enclosed by, a no‑anchoring boundary line shown on a map in Schedule 3.

2

Paragraph 5(2)(b)

Repeal the paragraph.

3

After Schedule 2

Insert:

Schedule 3—No‑anchoring areas

Note: See the definition of no‑anchoring area in subsection 5(1).

Part 1—Orpheus and Magnetic Islands

1Magnetic Island—Arthur Bay

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Arthur Bay, Magnetic Island.

2Orpheus Island—Yanks Jetty

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Yanks Jetty, Orpheus Island.

Part 2—Bowen

3Bowen—Horseshoe Bay

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Horseshoe Bay, Bowen.

Part 3—Whitsunday Planning Area

4Bait Reef

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Bait Reef in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

5Black Island

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Black Island in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

6Daydream Island—Sunlover’s Bay

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Sunlover’s Bay, Daydream Island, in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

7Dumbell Island

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Dumbell Island in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

8Haslewood Island—Chalkies Beach

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Chalkies Beach, Haslewood Island, in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

9Hayman Island—Blue Pearl Bay

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Blue Pearl Bay, Hayman Island, in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

10Hook Island—Caves Cove

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Caves Cove, Hook Island, in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

11Hook Island—Luncheon Bay and Manta Ray Bay

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Luncheon Bay and Manta Ray Bay, Hook Island, in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

12Langford Island

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Langford Island in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

13South Molle Island—Sandy Bay

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Sandy Bay, South Molle Island, in the Whitsunday Planning Area.

14Whitsunday Island—Cairn Beach

The following map shows the no‑anchoring area at Cairn Beach, Whitsunday Island, in the Whitsunday Planning Area.