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and Part 2.

       * Part 1 introduces the reader to the values of the Hinchinbrook Planning Area, the diversity of the uses and a range of concerns for the Area.  It then explores the key elements of the Plan that the Authority will implement to manage the Area.

       * Part 2 sets out Statutory Policy and the legal provisions which are enforced under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983.

This Plan has been released in conjunction with a series of 'Information Sheets' that summarises the major provisions of the Plan. The Plan and the explanatory material may be obtained by contacting the GBRMPA on (07) 4750 0700 or by downloading the documents from http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/.

Hinchinbrook Plan of Management 2004

The GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK AUTHORITY, having regard to the protection of World Heritage values of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the precautionary principle mentioned in section 3.5.1 of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment (a copy of which is set out in the Schedule to the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994), has prepared the following plan of management under Part VB of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

Dated    15 April  2004

Part 1 Management of the Hinchinbrook Planning Area

Division 1 Preliminary

1.1 Name of Plan

  This Plan is the Hinchinbrook Plan of Management 2004.

1.2 The Planning Area and the application of this Plan

  This Plan applies to the part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park within the Planning Area (that is, the area described in Schedule 1).

Note   This Plan (except Part 2 — Enforcement Provisions) commences on gazettal: see subsection 39ZF (1) of the Act. Part 2 of this Plan commences on the day on which regulations made under paragraph 66 (2) (ba) of the Act declare that the Part takes effect: see the Act, subsection 39ZF (2).

1.3 General intent

 (1) The general intent of this Plan is, in conjunction with other management mechanisms, to protect and conserve identified values of the Planning Area, while allowing for reasonable opportunities to access and use the Planning Area in an ecologically sustainable manner.

 (2) The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (the Authority) is the administering authority for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975. Section 39Y of that Act sets out the objects of plans of management. These are:
 (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; and
 (b) to ensure management for