Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1990 No. 351

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

Dated 19 February 1990.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

John Kerin

Minister of State for Primary Industries

and Energy for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for the Arts, Sport,

the Environment, Tourism and Territories

Regulation 13 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Limit on discharge of persons from vessels or hovercraft

“13. A person operating a vessel or hovercraft must not permit more than 20 persons to be discharged from that vessel or hovercraft in a day at a place within a Zone of the Cairns Section listed in column 1 of the table unless that person has a permission, under the provision of the zoning plan listed in column 2 of the table opposite that Zone:

(a) to provide a tourist or educational facility; or

(b) to establish a tourist program; or

(c) to establish an educational program; or

(d) to undertake research or construction;

using that vessel or hovercraft to gain access to that place.

Penalty: $5,000.

(S.R. 62/90)—Cat. No. 14/14.2.1990

 

TABLE

Column 1	Column 2
Zone	Permission Provision
General Use A	paragraph 5.2 (i)
General Use B	paragraph 6.2 (i)
Marine National Park A	paragraph 7.2 (g)
Marine National Park B	paragraph 9.2 (f)
Marine National Park Buffer Zone	paragraph 9.2 (f).”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 February 1990.

2. 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 No. 9.

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