Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00019:reg:11:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00019
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 11 (pt 12/19)
Character Range: 113605–116533

crewed vessels (regional tour operations) and vice versa.
 (3) Unless consistent with the circumstances mentioned in subclause (2), the Authority must not convert a relevant permission that has been granted for the purpose of conducting a tourism operation to a permission to conduct a bareboat operation.
Note: The Authority's policy in relation to the conversion of relevant permissions for bareboat and crewed vessel operations is set out in the document published by the Authority and entitled Managing Bareboat Operations in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The document can be found on the Authority's website at http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au.

1.42  Conversion between tourism operations
  The Authority must not convert a relevant permission that has been granted for the purposes of any of the following tourism operations to a permission for any other type of operation (whether or not specified in the following list), and must not convert a permission for any other type of operation to a permission for an operation that is listed:
 (a) aircraft operations;
 (b) Bowen operations;
 (c) craftless operations;
 (d) hire operations;
 (e) long range roving operations;
 (f) passenger transport operations
 (g) support service operations.

1.43  Further permissions
  The Authority intends that if:
 (a) a relevant permission (the original permission) was granted giving access rights for a tourist program; and
 (b) the access rights were different to the access right restrictions set out in Part 2;
then, when a further permission is granted in respect of the original permission, the access rights may remain the same.
Note 1: Information about the way tourism permissions are managed by the Authority can be found in the document published by the Authority and entitled Managing Tourism Permissions to Operate in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Including Allocation, Latency and Tenure). The document may be accessed on the Authority's web site at http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au.
Note 2: The Regulations provide for:
(a) when a relevant permission ceases to be in force for the purposes of applications for further permissions; and
(b) transfers of permissions.

1.44  Special tourism permissions for which only certain persons may apply
  The following relevant permissions are declared to be special tourism permissions for the purposes of the Regulations:
 (a) a relevant permission to conduct any of the following tourism operations in the Planning Area:
 (i) a bareboat operation;
 (ii) a Bowen operation;
 (iii) a long range roving operation;
 (iv) a regional tour operation;
 (b) a relevant permission to conduct a standard tour operation involving fishing or collecting in the Planning Area outside the General Use Zone and the Habitat Protection Zone.
Note: The Regulations limit who may apply for a special tourism permission to:
(a) a past holder of the permission; or
(b) a person selected through a process