Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK ACT 1975 - SECT 39Y

                   The objects of plans of management are as follows:

                     (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 range of recreational activities.