Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3) (Cth)

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 1972

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

Dated 12 July 2001

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

ROBERT HILL

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on the commencement of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Act 2001.

3Amendment of Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983

Schedule 1 amends the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983.

Schedule 1Amendments

(regulation 3)

  

[1]After subregulation 6 (2)

insert

• (3)

  A permission granted under regulation 13 or 22 is declared to be a permission to which paragraphs 38CB (1) (c), 38MA (1) (d) and 38MA (3) (c) of the Act apply.

[2]After regulation 45

insert

45ADischarge of sewage

• (1)

  A person is guilty of an offence if the person intentionally or negligently discharges sewage in the Marine Park.

Penalty:   50 penalty units.

• (2)

  This regulation does not apply to the discharge of sewage:

  • (a)

    from a vessel or aircraft:

    • (i)

      that does not contain a storage tank designed for storing sewage; or

    • (ii)

      that contains a storage tank designed for storing sewage, if the vessel or aircraft is more than 500 metres seawards from the seaward edge of the nearest reef; or

    • (iii)

      if the discharge was for the purpose of saving life at sea or securing the safety of the vessel or aircraft; or

  • (b)

    in a zone for which the zoning plan provides for the zone to be used or entered for that purpose.

Note   A defendant bears an evidential burden for matters in subregulation (2) — see Criminal Code, subsection 13.3 (3).

• (3)

  In this regulation:

discharge has the meaning given by subsection 38J (7) of the Act.

reef includes bommie fields, reef slopes, moats and ramparts.

sewage has the meaning given by Part IIIB of the Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Act 1983.

[3]Part 7, before regulation 62

insert

61ACompulsory pilotage area

• (1)

  For the definition of compulsory pilotage area in subsection 3 (1) of the Act, the following parts of the Great Barrier Reef Region are prescribed:

  • (a)

    the inner route described in Part 1 of Schedule 8;

  • (b)

    the Hydrographer’s Passage described in Part 2 of Schedule 8;

  • (c)

    the Whitsundays compulsory pilotage area described in Part 3 of Schedule 8.

• (2)

  A geographic coordinate mentioned in Schedule 8 is to be determined by reference to the Geocentric Datum of Australia (known as GDA94), as defined in Gazette No. GN 35 of 6 September 1995.

[4]After Schedule 7

insert

Schedule 8Compulsory pilotage area

(regulation 61A)

Part 1Inner route

 The waters bounded by:

• (a)

  the Australian mainland; and

• (b)

  the outer eastern edge of the Great Barrier Reef; and

• (c)

  the northern boundary of the Great Barrier Reef Region; and

• (d)

  latitude 16° 39.91¢ S.

  Part 2Hydrographer’s Passage

 The area bounded by a line that progressively joins, on geodesic lines, the following points:

Item	Latitude	Longitude
1	20° 39.11¢ S	149° 49.36¢ E
2	20° 35.91¢ S	150° 07.36¢ E
3	20° 28.31¢ S	150° 18.06¢ E
4	20° 02.91¢ S	150° 03.06¢ E
5	19° 54.91¢ S	150° 16.56¢ E
6	19° 39.91¢ S	150° 10.56¢ E
7	19° 50.91¢ S	150° 33.06¢ E
8	20° 01.41¢ S	150° 25.86¢ E
9	20° 06.91¢ S	150° 17.26¢ E
10	20° 19.91¢ S	150° 27.06¢ E
11	20° 32.91¢ S	150° 27.06¢ E
12	20° 41.51¢ S	150° 11.66¢ E
13	20° 54.41¢ S	150° 01.96¢ E
14	20° 39.11¢ S	149° 49.36¢ E

Part 3Whitsundays compulsory pilotage area

 The area bounded by a line that begins at the northernmost point of Cape Gloucester at low water, at about latitude 20° 03.94¢ S, longitude 148° 27.51¢ E, and continues progressively:

• (a)

  on geodesic lines to the following points:

Item	Latitude	Longitude
1	19° 58.02¢ S	148° 18.60¢ E
2	19° 57.83¢ S	148° 18.53¢ E
3	19° 58.00¢ S	148° 21.68¢ E
4	19° 58.28¢ S	148° 27.05¢ E
5	19° 58.37¢ S	148° 27.40¢ E
6	19° 59.28¢ S	148° 33.62¢ E
7	20° 00.82¢ S	148° 37.48¢ E
8	20° 02.17¢ S	148° 53.07¢ E
9	20° 03.58¢ S	148° 57.92¢ E
10	20° 14.42¢ S	149° 10.47¢ E
11	20° 15.20¢ S	149° 11.15¢ E
12	20° 28.93¢ S	149° 08.03¢ E
13	20° 31.20¢ S	149° 09.07¢ E
14	20° 34.28¢ S	149° 10.50¢ E
15	20° 33.91¢ S	149° 07.06¢ E
16	20° 39.73¢ S	148° 45.82¢ E;	and

• (b)

  west along parallel of latitude 20° 39.73¢ S to the coastline of the mainland at low water, near Midge Point; and

• (c)

  generally northerly, easterly, south-easterly and north-westerly along the coastline of the mainland at low water to the point where the boundary began.

Note   The line described by the points mentioned in items 2 to 14 of the table in paragraph (a) follows the Australian territorial sea baseline, as defined in AMBIS 2001 data, published by the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG).

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1983 No. 262, as amended by 1985 No. 169; 1986 No. 1; 1987 No. 247; 1988 No. 185; 1989 Nos. 269, 367 and 368; 1990 Nos. 9 and 35; 1991 Nos. 63, 257 and 296; 1992 No. 69; 1993 Nos. 188, 206 and 266; 1996 No. 277; 1997 Nos. 96 and 326; 1999 No. 252; 2000 No. 5; Act No. 137, 2000; Statutory Rules 2001 Nos. 12 and 178.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette