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least 1 500 feet over the Planning Area: see the Aeronautical Information Publication entitled 'En route Supplement Australia'.

Other operations and commercial uses

 (8) Tourism operations using large vessels will not be allowed to operate their tenders in the Planning Area, except to transfer passengers (by the most direct reasonable route) between their vessel and:
 (a) a place outside the Planning Area; or
 (b) a tourist facility within, or partly within, the Planning Area.

 (9) Hire operations and retail activities, other than as part of a tourist operation, may only be conducted in intensive use setting Locations.

Note 1   A person who hires a vessel from a hire operation may operate the vessel anywhere in the Planning Area.

Note 2   Locations are set out in Schedule 2. Intensive use setting Locations are set out in item 1 of Schedule 3.

 (10) The Authority intends that a person must not operate any of the following in a Location, other than an intensive use setting Location:
 (a) a vessel for motorised water sports;
 (b) a high speed vessel as part of a tourism operation;
 (c) a hovercraft.

1.31 Management of motorised water sports and motorised water sports operations

 (1) The Authority intends that motorised water sports take place only in an intensive use setting Location or outside a Location.

 (2) The Authority acknowledges that applications for motorised water sports operations may require a more detailed assessment because of the sensitive nature of the activity; and

 (3) The Authority intends to allow an operator engaged in a crewed vessel or long range roving operation to use an ancillary vessel for motorised water sports without the activity being classed as a motorised water sports operation (see clause 2.17).

 (4) The Authority intends that motorised water sports operations will be operated only:
 (a) using a vessel that is 6 metres or less in length; and
 (b) from land (rather than from another, larger, vessel); and
 (c) in an intensive use setting Location or outside a Location.

Note   For motorised water sports operation, see Table 2 (c), and for exemptions to paragraph 1.31 (4) (c), see subclause 2.18 (3).

1.32 Sensitive Location strategies

 (1) Sensitive Locations, listed in Schedule 4, have been identified for their special combination of high nature conservation, scientific, cultural and World Heritage values, their present use levels and opportunities, and the need for further specific management provisions.

 (2) The intensity of tourism will be managed at Sensitive Locations by regulating the number of vessels associated with certain types of tourism operations visiting each Sensitive Location during any particular day or week, as set out in Schedule 4. Management setting provisions (described in Table 1), as well as tourism operation provisions and eligibility