Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 6)1

Statutory Rules 2002 No. 2242

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

Dated 19 September 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

DAVID KEMP

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

1 Name of Regulations

  These Regulations are the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 6).

2 Commencement

  These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3 Amendment of Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983

  Schedule 1 amends the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Regulation 59A

substitute

59A Register of permissions and related information

 (1) The Authority may keep a register of permissions and related information.

 (2) The register may be kept:

 (a) solely in electronic form; or

 (b) in any form that the Authority decides.

 (3) The register may include copies of, and information in relation to, the following:

 (a) applications, including variations of applications, for a permission or for the transfer or variation of a permission;

 (b) further particulars in relation to an application mentioned in paragraph (a);

 (c) decisions of the Authority about the grant, refusal, revocation, suspension, transfer or variation of a permission;

 (d) decisions of the Authority under regulation 121;

 (e) statements of reasons given for decisions mentioned in paragraphs (c) and (d);

 (f) permissions;

 (g) notices relating to a matter mentioned in any of paragraphs (a) to (f);

 (h) any other document or record that the Authority considers appropriate.

 (4) For this regulation:

 (a) a permission includes an approval, authorisation, authority, exemption, licence, permit or other permission (however described and whether in force or not) relating to the Marine Park; and

 (b) without limiting paragraph (a), a permission is taken to relate to the Marine Park if it relates to:

 (i) the use or management of an area (which may be a Queensland national park or a Queensland marine park) the use or management of which would or might affect the Marine Park; or

 (ii) the use of a place outside the Marine Park for a purpose relating to the Marine Park.

[2] Regulation 59B 

omit

The Authority must

insert

 (1) The Authority must

[3] Regulation 59B

insert

 (2) The register may be made available for inspection on the Internet.

[4] Subregulations 59C (1) and (2)

after

a document

insert

or information

[5] After subregulation 59C (2)

insert

 (3) If the register is kept in electronic form, the Authority is taken to have given a copy of a document or information that is in the register if the Authority gives a printout of the document or information.  

[6] After regulation 123

insert

123A Form of applications, documents and information

  The Authority may require an application that is to be made, or a document or information that is to be given, to the Authority in writing to be made, or given, in an electronic form that meets particular information technology requirements.

Example

The Authority may require an application that is to be made in writing to be made in an electronic form that can readily be published on the Internet.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1983 No. 262, as amended by 1985 No. 169; 1986 No. 1; 1987 No. 247; 1988 No. 185; 1989 Nos. 269, 367 and 368; 1990 Nos. 9 and 35; 1991 Nos. 63, 257 and 296; 1992 No. 69; 1993 Nos. 188, 206 and 266; 1996 No. 277; 1997 Nos. 96 and 326; 1999 No. 252; 2000 No. 5; Act No. 137, 2000; Statutory Rules 2001 Nos. 12, 178, 197 and 307; 2002 Nos. 8, 72, 73, 112, 177 and 209.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 26 September 2002.