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of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (which is relevant because of subsection 3(1A) of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 and subsection 13(1) of the Legislation Act 2003).
Note 2: For precautionary principle, see subsection 3(1) of the Act (which is relevant because of subsection 13(1) of the Legislation Act 2003).
 (2) Section 39Y of the Act sets out the following objects of plans of management:
 (a) to ensure, for particular areas of the Marine Park in which the Authority considers that nature conservation values, cultural and heritage values, or scientific values, are, or may be, threatened, that appropriate proposals are developed to reduce or eliminate the threats;
 (b) to ensure management for the recovery and continued protection and conservation of species and ecological communities that are, or may become:
 (i) extinct; or
 (ii) extinct in the wild; or
 (iii) critically endangered; or
 (iv) endangered; or
 (v) vulnerable; or
 (vi) conservation dependent;
 (c) to ensure that activities within areas of the Marine Park are managed on the basis of ecologically sustainable use;
 (d) to provide a basis for managing the uses of a particular area of the Marine Park that may conflict with other uses of the area or with the values of the area;
 (e) to provide for the management of areas of the Marine Park in conjunction with community groups in circumstances where those groups have a special interest in the areas concerned;
 (f) to enable people using the Marine Park to participate in a range of recreational activities.
 (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 (for example, "Bird Island 20‑019a"), is a reference to the reef or place depicted and numbered in:
 (a) the map titled MPZ10—Whitsundays, published by the Authority in April 2011; or
 (b) the map titled Special Edition—Whitsunday Group, published by the Authority in September 2011.
 (3) There are discrete boundaries for Locations described in Schedule 3.
 (5) If part of the boundary of a Location extends beyond the Planning Area, the Location boundary is taken to be the boundary of the Planning Area.
 (6) 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: The intertidal areas and most of the islands are managed by the Queensland Government.
Note 2: The Commonwealth island of Eshelby Island