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there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation.'.

 (4) The Authority does not intend that this Plan will impair or extinguish any native title rights in the Planning Area.

1.4 Interpretation

 (1) Unless the contrary intention appears, a term defined in Schedule 9 has the meaning given by that schedule.

 (2) A reference in this Plan to a reef or other place, followed by an identification number in brackets (for example, 'Escape Reef (15‑094)'), is a reference to the reef or place depicted and numbered in any of the following:
 (a) the map entitled MPZ5 – Cooktown published by the Authority in April 2006;
 (b) the map entitled MPZ6 – Cairns published by the Authority in April 2006;
 (c) the map entitled MPZ7 – Innisfail published by the Authority in April 2006.

 (3) If 2 Locations described in this Plan overlap, the boundary between them, in the area of overlap, is taken to be the median line between their boundaries as described.

 (4) If, for this Plan, an area has as its seaward boundary, a notional line every point on which is a particular distance seaward from a reef or coastline (for example, the coastal 1 500 metre line) but the area does not extend all the way around the reef or coastline, the lateral boundaries of the area are the lines that are perpendicular to the reef or coastline at each end of the area.

 (5) In this Plan, all geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94), published in Gazette No. GN 35 of 6 September 1995.

Note 1   A specific reef Location mentioned in this Plan generally refers to the area within the 500 metre line of the reef, including the reef.

Note 2   The land and intertidal areas of most islands and cays are managed by the Queensland Environment Protection Agency.

Note 3   Low Island (16‑028) and Russell Island (17‑013), and their intertidal areas, are managed by the Authority.

Division 2 Nature conservation

Subdivision 1 General

1.5 Overview

 (1) The Authority believes protection of the nature conservation values of the Marine Park to be a major consideration of management. Use that threatens, or may be reasonably expected to threaten, nature conservation values will be managed.

 (2) Nature conservation values of the Planning Area that the Authority considers are, or may be, threatened include the following:
 (a) corals and associated biota;
 (b) marine animals, plants and habitat, particularly dugong, whales and fish spawning sites;
 (c) birds nesting or roosting in, or adjacent to, the Planning Area.

Note 1   Regulations to control