EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
MINISTER FOR THE ARTS, SPORT, THE ENVIRONMENT TOURISM AND
TERRITORIES
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations (Amendment)
1989 No. 269
The prime purpose of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations (Amendment) is to give effect to the recommendations of the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances.
Details of the amendments follow:
Regulation 1 specifies the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations as the regulations being amended.
Regulations 2 and 3 amend paragraphs 13AD(1)(a) and 15B(1)(a) of the Principal Regulations. Under those paragraphs, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (‘the Authority’) may require an applicant for a relevant permission to give public notice by public advertisement of certain matters. The amendments in the regulations restrict the information sought to that which the Authority may reasonably require, by inserting the word “reasonably” into each of those paragraphs.
Regulation 4 inserts a reference to regulation 14 into paragraph 22(2)(a) of the Principal Regulations. The effect of this amendment is that if the Authority makes a decision under regulation 14 (concerning permission for the taking of certain fish in the Marine Park), a person affected by the decision may ask the Authority to review that decision. As such, the decision is then capable of review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal under regulation 22(6).
Authorised by
the Minister for the Arts, Sport,
the Environment, Tourism and Territories