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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

Subregulation 12.56(2)

DETERMINATION PROHIBITING ANCHORING OF COMMERCIAL SHIPPING VESSELS
NORTH-WEST NETWORK OF MARINE PARKS – PARKS AND PARK ZONES ASSIGNED TO IUCN CATEGORY II (NATIONAL PARK) OR IV (HABITAT PROTECTION AND RECREATIONAL USE)

I, JASON MUNDY, Acting Director of National Parks, under subregulation 12.56(2) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000, HEREBY DETERMINE that each of:

      1. Carnarvon Canyon, Ningaloo and Mermaid Reef Marine Parks; and

      2. the zones within Gascoyne, Dampier, Argo-Rowley Terrace and Kimberley Marine Parks that are assigned to IUCN category II (national park); and

      3. the zones within Gascoyne, Dampier and Kimberley Marine Parks that are assigned to IUCN category IV (habitat protection); and

      4. the zone within Ashmore Reef Marine Park that is assigned to IUCN category IV (recreational use)

being the areas shown in marine park maps in Schedule 2 and described in Schedule 4 to the North-west Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018, as specified in the Schedule hereto, is an area of water where vessels engaged in commercial shipping cannot be anchored.

  Note : This determination does not prevent anchoring in the areas described in the Schedule hereto due to circumstances of force majeure or distress or for the purposes of rendering assistance to persons, vessels or aircraft in danger or distress.

Dated this 27 th day of June 2018

SIGNED

Jason Mundy
SCHEDULE
NORTH-WEST NETWORK OF MARINE PARKS – PARKS AND PARK ZONES ASSIGNED TO IUCN CATEGORY II (NATIONAL PARK) OR IV (HABITAT PROTECTION AND RECREATIONAL USE)

List of relevant zone and clause numbers in Schedule 4 to the North-west Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018:
Marine Park                      Zone Number/s               Clause describing the area boundary
Carnarvon Canyon Marine Park     Entire area of marine park  2.1
Ningaloo Marine Park             Entire area of marine park  3.1
Gascoyne Marine Park             1, 2, 4                     4.3, 4.4, 4.6
Dampier Marine Park              1, 2                        6.3, 6.4
Mermaid Reef Marine Park         Entire area of marine park  9.1
Argo-Rowley Terrace Marine Park  1                           10.3
Kimberley Marine Park            2, 3, 4                     11.4, 11.5, 11.6
Ashmore Reef Marine Park         2                           12.4