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in moderate use Location (group size limit of 100)

Schedule 6C Bad weather anchorages for large vessels

Schedule 7 Permanently moored facilities — pontoons

Schedule 8 Reef Anchorages

Schedule 9 Definitions

Notes

Part 1 Management of the Cairns Planning Area

Division 1 Preliminary

1.1 Name of this Plan

  This Plan is the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998.

1.2 Application of this Plan

  This Plan applies to the area of the Marine Park inside the Planning Area.

Note   Planning Area is defined in Schedule 9.

1.3 Intent of this Plan

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

 (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 wide range of recreational activities.

 (3) Subsection 39Z (1) of the Act states that:
  'The Authority in preparing management plans must have regard to:
 (a) the protection of world heritage values of the Marine Park; and
 (b) the precautionary principle.'

Note   Subsection 39Z (2) of the Act defines the precautionary principle to have the same meaning as in section 3.5.1 of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment. (The Agreement is set out in full in the Schedule to the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994).

The principle is:
      'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation.'.

 (4) The Authority does not intend that this Plan will impair or