EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO. 47
WORLD HERITAGE PROPERTIES CONSERVATION REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
(Issued under the authority of the Minister of State for the Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories)
The purpose of the World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations (Amendment) is to prevent commercial forestry operations in the Wet Tropical Rainforests of North-East Australia in order to ensure that these areas of Queensland are conserved for future generations.
The regulations provide as follows:
Regulation 1 - Formal. Provides that the Principal Regulations means the World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations.
Regulation 2 - Provides for the insertion of a regulation which prohibits within the area to which the regulations apply activities associated with commercial forestry operations such as the cutting down or removing of trees, building of roads and carrying out of excavation works. The permitting, authorising, directing or ordering, or purporting to permit, authorise, direct or order, the doing of any such act is also prohibited. Specific provision is made to ensure traditional Aboriginal forestry activities can continue.
Regulation 3 - Amends the Principal Regulations by inserting a Schedule which describes the area of the Wet Tropical Rainforests of North-East Australia.
The regulations are intended to replace Statutory Rules 1988 No 2 which were declared never to have had any effect by section 11 of the Conservation Legislation Amendment Act 1988.
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