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activity is to be carried out. Licences and leases enable continued growth of marine park services and allow for the growth of appropriate commercial business opportunities and partnerships with the Director that will maintain and promote marine park values.

Prescriptions

       4.5.4.1               The Director may grant an activity licence or lease in accordance with section 358 (2) of the EPBC Act, where prescribed by Section 4.3 (Prescriptions for activities) and subject to the prescriptions (if any) relating to the particular activity.

       4.5.4.2               An activity licence or lease may be subject to conditions including but not limited to:

         a)      specifying the area in which, and the periods during which, the authorised activity may be carried out,

         b)      requiring the impacts of the authorised activity to be prevented or mitigated by specified actions developed in consultation with the Director,

         c)      regulating the use of or requiring the use of vessel identification and monitoring systems,

         d)      the provision of or consent for access to data for compliance and monitoring purposes,

         e)      making results of data collection, research and monitoring available to the Director (and in a specific format where relevant),

         f)        requiring reporting or auditing,

         g)      complying with other Commonwealth, state or territory laws and authorisations issued under such laws,

         h)      requiring, restricting, or prohibiting the use of specified gear, equipment or practices,

         i)        allowing for the Director or representative to board vessels, accompany tours or enter premises for the purpose of evaluating compliance with licence conditions, or

         j)        providing for the payment of fees.

4.5.5     Publication of authorisations

Prescription

       4.5.5.1               The Director will publish on the Parks Australia website a list of all authorisations issued under this plan, which may include the name of the authorised person or class of persons, the period for which the authorisation is issued and a description of the authorised activities.

Schedule 1: South-east Marine Parks overview

Image: Royal penguins preening at Macquarie Island (Kerry Steinberner/Australian Antarctic Division)

S1.1 South-east Network overview
Most of the marine parks of the South-east Network were proclaimed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (EPBC Act) in June 2007, came into effect on 1 September 2007 and were renamed on 11 October 2017. The exceptions were Macquarie Island Marine Park, which was proclaimed in October 1999, and the part of the Huon Marine Park that was the Tasmanian Seamounts Marine Reserve, which was proclaimed in May 1999. Proclamation dates for each park are provided in Section S1.3.
Throughout this section (S1.1) the parks are presented in a clockwise geographical order starting off in north-eastern Victoria, moving around Tasmania up to Cape Otway in western Victoria and across to South Australia, then to the sub-Antarctic.
Table S1.1 Overview of the