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be drawn in as needed.

Broadly, the role of the advisory committee will be to support Parks Australia's management of the marine park by providing advice on:

      * implementation of this management plan and associated management programs and actions

      * community and park user views, knowledge and needs

      * monitoring, evaluation and reporting in accordance with Section 3.2 (Monitoring, evaluation and reporting).

Terms of reference, including membership details, for the committee will be finalised in consultation with stakeholders. Consultation will include consideration of how best to align community advisory arrangements in relation to both Christmas Island Marine Park and Christmas Island National Park.

Committee meetings will be held at least twice per calendar year, and Parks Australia will provide the committee with documents and reports on the implementation of management programs and other material as appropriate to ensure the committee has the information necessary to fulfil its functions.

4.0 Management of activities

Image: Snorkeller at Christmas Island (Chris Bray)

   1.            Zone categories, names and objectives

Zoning and related prescriptions for managing activities are important tools for managing marine parks to ensure protection of marine habitats and species, while supporting the continuation of important activities in the marine environment. In determining the zones and prescriptions, the Director has considered the best available science, the views and aspirations of the Christmas Island community, advice from stakeholders, comments from the general public, the goals and principles of the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (NRSMPA) and the Australian International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reserve management principles.

The EPBC Act requires this plan to assign an IUCN category to each marine park. The EPBC Act also allows this plan to divide a marine park into zones and to assign a category to each zone. The category for each zone may differ from the overall category of the marine park.

This section assigns an IUCN category to the Christmas Island Marine Park and sets out the objectives for each zone. The zoning of Christmas Island Marine Park assigned under this plan is the same as the zoning assigned at the time the park was proclaimed in 2022. The maps in Chapter 2 show the zones assigned to the Christmas Island Marine Park.

Prescriptions

     1.          The Christmas Island Marine Park is assigned overall to the IUCN category II and the following zones:

     1.       National Park Zone (IUCN II), as shown in Section 2.1, Figure 2.1; and

     2.       Habitat Protection Zone (Christmas Island) (IUCN IV), as shown in Section 2.1, Figure 2.2.

         1.          The objective of the National Park Zone (IUCN II) is to provide for the protection and conservation of ecosystems, habitats and native species in as natural a state as possible.