Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01022:reg:54
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01022
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 54
Character Range: 123903–125352

54  Emergency Special Management Areas
 (1) For the purposes of subsection 4.2.1(2) of the Zoning Plan, the Authority may, by legislative instrument, designate a Special Management Area under that subsection without public consultation if the designation is required for a purpose referred to in section 4.2.2, except paragraph 4.2.2(d) or (g) of the Plan.
 (2) The designation may be of a part or parts of a zone, or of more than one zone.
 (3) The designation:
 (a) must specify the area to be designated; and
 (b) must state the special management provisions that will apply to the area; and
 (c) must state the period during which those provisions will apply to the area.
 (4) The Authority must, as soon as practicable, publish a notice of the designation in one or more of the following ways:
 (a) in a newspaper that circulates generally in Queensland;
 (b) in a local newspaper that circulates in the part of Queensland adjacent to the part of the Marine Park that is designated;
 (c) on the Authority's website.
 (5) The notice must also state that it is an offence to fail to comply with the special management provisions that apply to the area.
 (6) The designation ceases to have effect at the end of:
 (a) the period of 120 days after it commences; or
 (b) if, before the end of that period, the Authority extends or reduces that period in accordance with subsection 55(2)—the period determined by the Authority under that subsection.