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Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998
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Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975
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F2018C00019 C04
01 January 2018
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Foreword
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Part 1—Management of the Whitsunday Planning Area
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Division 1—Preliminary
1.1 Name of this Plan
1.2 Application of this Plan
1.3 Intent of this Plan
1.4 Interpretation
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Division 2—Overview of values of the Planning Area
1.5 Overview
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Division 2A—Nature conservation values
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Subdivision 1—Overview of nature conservation values
1.6 Overview
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Subdivision 2—Water Quality
1.7A Values
1.7B Issues
1.7C Strategies
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Subdivision 3—Corals and associated biota
1.8A Values
1.8B Issues
1.8C Strategies
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Subdivision 4—Seagrass meadows, dugong and marine turtles
1.9A Values
1.9B Issues
1.9C Strategies
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Subdivision 5—Whales and dolphins
1.10A Values
1.10B Issues
1.10C Strategies
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Subdivision 6—Birds
1.11A Values
1.11B Issues
1.11C Strategies
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Division 2B—Cultural and heritage values
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Subdivision 1—Overview of cultural and heritage values
1.12 Overview
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Subdivision 2—Traditional Owner cultural heritage
1.13A Values
1.13B Issues
1.13C Strategies
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Subdivision 3—Historic heritage
1.14A Values
1.14B Issues
1.14C Strategies
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Subdivision 4—World Heritage and National Heritage
1.15A Values
1.15B Issues
1.15C Strategies
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Subdivision 5—Scenic amenity including aesthetics
1.16A Values
1.16B Issues
1.16C Strategies
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Division 2C—Community values (including scientific values)
1.17A Overview
1.17B Issues
1.17C Strategies
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Division 3—Monitoring the effectiveness of management
1.18 Reef 2050 Integrated Monitoring and Reporting Program Strategy
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Division 4—Use of the Planning Area
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Subdivision 1—Overview
1.21 Values
1.22 Issues
1.23 Strategies
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Subdivision 2—Sensitive sites
1.24 Setting 5 (protected) areas
1.24A Significant bird sites
1.25 Site plans
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Subdivision 3—Moorings and tourist facilities
1.26 Policy overview—moorings and tourist facilities
1.27 New permissions for private moorings
1.28 Limit on tourist facilities (other than moorings)
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Subdivision 4—Limits on activities
1.29 Aerobatics, motorised water sports and high-speed vessels
1.30 No permissions for reef walking
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Subdivision 5—Management of tourist programs
1.31 General
1.32 Types of tourism operations—access rights and operational requirements
1.33 Bookings
1.34 Permissions for tourism operations—policy overview
1.35 Tourism permissions that are capped
1.36 Granting new permissions for regional tour operations
1.37 Fishing or collecting as part of a tourist program
1.39 Harvest fishing and aquaculture operations
1.40 Permission replication and splitting
1.41 Conversion between bareboat and crewed vessel (regional tour operation) operations
1.42 Conversion between tourism operations
1.43 Further permissions
1.44 Special tourism permissions for which only certain persons may apply
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Part 2—Enforcement provisions
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Division 1—Preliminary
2.1 How many people on a vessel
2.3 When this Part does not apply
2.3A Permissions must be consistent with this Plan
2.3B Permissions for conduct with no or low adverse impact on values of Planning Area
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Division 2—General restrictions on the operation of vessels and aircraft
2.4 Vessels not to be operated in certain setting areas
2.5 Operation of tourism operations in the Planning Area
2.5A Passenger transport operations
2.5B Support service operations
2.7 Limits on operation of aircraft
2.8 Other limits on use of vessels
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Division 3—Wildlife protection
2.11 Activities in or near significant bird sites
2.12 Protecting coral
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Division 4—Other activities
2.14 Certain commercial activities
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Schedule 1—The Planning Area
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Part 1—Geographic description of area
1. Area 1—Gloucester, Molle, Whitsunday, Repulse and Lindeman Units
2. Area 2 – Hardy Unit
Part 2—Map of area
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Schedule 2—Setting areas
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Part 1—Setting 1 (intensive) areas
1 Daydream and West South Molle Islands setting 1 (intensive) area
2 Dingo Beach setting 1 (intensive) area
3 Earlando Resort setting 1 (intensive) area
4 East Mid Molle and South Molle Islands setting 1 (intensive) area
5 Hamilton Island and Dent Passage setting 1 (intensive) area
6 Happy and Palm Bay Resorts, Long Island setting 1 (intensive) area
7 Hayman Island Resort setting 1 (intensive) area
8 Hook Island Observatory and Resort setting 1 (intensive) area
9 Lindeman Island Resort setting 1 (intensive) area
10 Paradise Bay Resort, Long Island setting 1 (intensive) area
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Part 2—Setting 2 (high use) areas
11 Black Island setting 2 (high use) area
12 Cid Harbour, Cid and Whitsunday Islands setting 2 (high use) area
13 Hardy, Hook and Line Reefs setting 2 (high use) area
14 Southern Whitsunday Island setting 2 (high use) area
15 Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island setting 2 (high use) area
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Part 3—Setting 3 (moderate use) areas
16 Bluff Point setting 3 (moderate use) area
17 Cateran Bay, Border Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
18 Clarke’s Cove setting 3 (moderate use) area
19 Eastern Border Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
20 Hook, Line and Barb Reefs Complex setting 3 (moderate use) area
21 Kennedy Sound, Lindeman, Seaforth and Shaw Islands setting 3 (moderate use) area
22 Langford/Black Islands Complex setting 3 (moderate use) area
23 Line Reef setting 3 (moderate use) area
24 Mackerel Bay, Hook Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
25 Molle Channel setting 3 (moderate use) area
26 North Hook Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
27 Pandanus Bay, Long Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
28 Roberta Bay, Shaw Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
29 Saba Bay, Hook Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
30 South Hook Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
31 South Whitsunday Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
32 South-eastern Whitsunday Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
33 Tongue Bay, Whitsunday Island setting 3 (moderate use) area
34 Woodwark Bay setting 3 (moderate use) area
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Part 4—Setting 4 (low use) areas
35 Armit Island setting 4 (low use) area
36 Border and Deloraine Islands Complex setting 4 (low use) area
37 Burning Point and Shaw island setting 4 (low use) area
38 Double Cone Island setting 4 (low use) area
39 East Hayman and North West Hook Islands setting 4 (low use) area
40 East Hook Island setting 4 (low use) area
41 East Whitsunday Island setting 4 (low use) area
42 Eshelby Island setting 4 (low use) area
43 Gloucester Island and Manta Ray Island setting 4 (low use) area
44 Grassy Island, Double Bay and Grimston Point setting 4 (low use) area
45 Gulnare Inlet, Whitsunday Island setting 4 (low use) area
46 Harold and Edward Islands setting 4 (low use) area
47 Haslewood Islands complex setting 4 (low use) area
48 Lady Island setting 4 (low use) area
49 Lindeman Island complex setting 4 (low use) area
50 Long Island setting 4 (low use) area
51 Middle Island setting 4 (low use) area
52 North Molle Island setting 4 (low use) area
53 Petrel Islet setting 4 (low use) area
54 Puritan Bay, Round Head, Genesta Bay, Cape Conway, Defiance Island setting 4 (low use) area
55 Rattray Island setting 4 (low use) area
56 Repulse Islands setting 4 (low use) area
57 Saddleback, Olden and Gumbrel Islands complex setting 4 (low use) area
58 South Molle Island setting 4 (low use) area
59 South-west Hook Island setting 4 (low use) area
60 West Whitsunday Island setting 4 (low use) area
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Part 5—Setting 5 (protected) areas
61 Cow and Calf Islands setting 5 (protected) area
62 Deloraine Island setting 5 (protected) area
63 Double Bay East setting 5 (protected) area
64 Eshelby Islands setting 5 (protected) area
65 Haslewood and Lupton Islands setting 5 (protected) area
66 Hill Inlet, Whitsunday Island setting 5 (protected) area
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Schedule 3—Locations
1 Almora Islet Location
2 Anchorage Bay, Shaw Island Location
3 Andersons/Woodcutter Bays Location
4 Anne Island Location
5 Apostle Bay, Whitsunday Island Location
6 Armit Island Location
7 Armit Islets (No 1) Location
8 Bait Reef Location
9 Bauer Bay, South Molle Island Location
10 Baynham Island Location
11 Beach 25, Whitsunday Island Location
12 Billbob Bay, Shaw Island Location
13 Bird Island Location
14 Black Island Location
15 Blue Pearl Bay, Hayman Island Location
16 Bluff Bay Location
17 Boat Port, Lindeman Island Location
18 Border Island Location
19 Brush Island Location
20 Butterfly Bay/Maureen’s Cove, Hook Island Location
21 Calf Island Location
22 Cane Cocky’s Cove Location
23 Cape Rock Location
24 Catseye Bay, Hamilton Island Location
25 Chance Bay, Whitsunday Island Location
26 Chrome Rock Location
27 Cid Harbour, Cid and Whitsunday Islands Location
28 Coconut Bay, Lindeman Island Location
29 Cole Island Location
30 Comston Island Location
31 Cow Island Location
32 Daydream Island Location
33 Defiance Island Location
34 Defiance Reefs Location
35 Deloraine Island Location
36 Denman Island Location
37 Dent Island West Location
38 Dent Passage, Dent and Hamilton Islands Location
39 Dingo Beach Location
40 Double Bay East Location
41 Double Bay West Location
42 Double Cone Island Location
43 Double Rocks Location
44 Driftwood Bay, Hamilton Island Location
45 Dugong Inlet, Whitsunday Island Location
46 Dumbell Island Location
47 Dungurra Island Location
48 Earlando Coast Location
49 East Repulse Island Location
50 East Rock Location
51 Edward Island Location
52 Edwin Rock Location
53 Eshelby Islands Location
54 Esk Island Location
55 Fairlight Rock Location
56 Fish and Palm Bays, Long Island Location
57 Fitzalan Island Location
58 Fitzalan Passage, Whitsunday Island Location
59 Funnel Bay Location
60 Gap Beach, Lindeman Island Location
61 Genesta Bay Location
62 Gloucester Island Location
63 Grassy Island Location
64 Gulnare Inlet, Whitsunday Island Location
65 Gumbrell Island Location
66 Hamilton Island East Location
67 Happy Bay, Long Island Location
68 Hardy Reef Location
69 Harold Island Location
70 Haslewood Island South Location
71 Hayman Island East Location
72 Hayman Island Resort Location
73 Henning Island Location
74 Hill Inlet, Whitsunday Island Location
75 Homestead Bay, Cid Island Location
76 Hook Island Reef (No 1) Location
77 Hook Island Reef (No 2) Location
78 Hook Island Reef (No 5) Location
79 Hook Reef Location
80 Hunt Channel, Cid and Whitsunday Islands Location
81 Ireby Island Location
82 Jester Rock Location
83 Keyser Island Location
84 Lagoon Rock Location
85 Langford Island/Spit Location
86 Lindeman Island East Location
87 Line Reef Location
88 Little Grassy Island Location
89 Little Lindeman Island Location
90 Long Island Reef (No 6/No 7) Location
91 Long Rock Location
92 Low Island Location
93 Low Rock Location
94 Luncheon, Manta Ray and Pinnacle Bays, Hook Island Location
95 Lupton Island East Location
96 Mackerel Bay, Hook Island Location
97 Macona Inlet, Hook Island Location
98 Maher Island East Location
99 Maher Island West Location
100 Mansell Island Location
101 Martin Islet, Haslewood Island Location
102 May’s Bay, Whitsunday Island Location
103 Mid Molle Island Location
104 Middle Island Location
105 Moon Island Location
106 Nara Inlet, Hook Island Location
107 Neck Bay East, Shaw Island Location
108 Neck Bay West, Shaw Island Location
109 Nellie Bay Location
110 Nicolson Island Location
111 North Molle Island Location
112 North Repulse Island Location
113 Olden Island Location
114 Pandanus Bay, Long and Pelican Islands Location
115 Paradise Bay, Long Island Location
116 Pentecost Island Location
117 Perseverance Island Location
118 Peter Bay, Whitsunday Island Location
119 Peter Head East, Whitsunday Island Location
120 Petrel Islet Location
121 Pig Bay, Haslewood Island Location
122 Pine Island Location
123 Pioneer Rocks Location
124 Plantation Bay, Lindeman Island Location
125 Planton Island Location
126 Puritan Bay Location
127 Queen Margrethe Bay, Shaw Island Location
128 Rattray Island Location
129 Repair Island Location
130 Repulse Bay East Location
131 Ripple Rocks Location
132 Roberta Bay, Shaw Island Location
133 Rooper Inlet Location
134 Saba Bay, Hook Island Location
135 Saddleback Island Location
136 Sandy Bay, Long Island Location
137 Sawmill Bay, Whitsunday Island Location
138 Seaforth Island Location
139 Shaw Island Reef (No 5) Location
140 Shaw Island Reef (No 6) Location
141 Shoal Bay Location
142 Shute Harbour Location
143 Shute Island Location
144 Sidney Island Location
145 Sillago Island Location
146 Sinker Reef Location
147 South Molle Island East Location
148 South Molle Island West Location
149 South Repulse Island Location
150 Spitfire Rock Location
151 St Helen Rock Location
152 Steen’s Beach, Hook Island Location
153 Stockyard Beach, Haslewood Island Location
154 Stonehaven Anchorage, Hook Island Location
155 Surprise Rock Location
156 Swamp Bay Location
157 Tancred Island Location
158 Teague Island Location
159 Thomas Island Location
160 Tongue Bay, Whitsunday Island Location
161 Trammel Bay Location
162 Triangle Island Location
163 Turtle Bay, Whitsunday Island Location
164 Unnamed Island (20-059) Location
165 Unnamed Island (20-023), Armit Islets (No 1) Location
166 Unnamed Reef (20-025a/b, 20-622) Location
167 Unnamed Reef (20-628) Location
168 Volskow Island Location
169 White Bay, Haslewood and Lupton Islands Location
170 White Rock Location
171 Whitehaven Beach, Whitsunday Island Location
172 Whitsunday Island Reef (No 1/No 18), Whitsunday Island Location
173 Whitsunday Island Reef (No 5), Whitsunday Island Location
174 Whitsunday Island Reef (No 16/No 17), Whitsunday Island Location
175 Whitsunday Island Reef (No 19/No 20), Whitsunday Island Location
176 Windy Bay, Haslewood Island Location
177 Wirrainbeia Island Location
178 Woodwark Bay North Location
179 Woodwark Bay South Location
180 Workington Island Location
181 Yellow Rock Location
182 Yvonne’s Coves, Whitsunday Island Location
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Schedule 4—Designated motorised water sports areas
1 Hayman Island and Arkhurst Island Complex designated motorised water sports area
2 North Molle Island and Daydream Island Complex designated motorised water sports area
3 Fitzalan Passage designated motorised water sports area
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Schedule 6—Significant bird sites
1 Bird Island significant bird site
2 East Rock significant bird site
3 Edwin Rock significant bird site
4 Eshelby Islands significant bird site
5 Armit Island (southern beach only) significant bird site
6 Double Cone Island (western island only) significant bird site
7 Grassy Island (southern beach only) significant bird site
8 Armit Islets (No 1) significant bird site
9 Olden Rock (south of Olden Island) significant bird site
10 Shaw Island (beach east of Burning Point) significant bird site
11 South Repulse Island (western beach only) significant bird site
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Schedule 7—Regular aircraft landing areas
1 Hardy Reef regular aircraft landing area
2 Bait Reef regular aircraft landing area
3 Daydream Island regular aircraft landing area
4 Bauer Bay and Mid Molle Island regular aircraft landing area
5 Cid Harbour, Sawmill Bay, Hunt Channel and Dugong Inlet regular aircraft landing area
6 Whitehaven Beach regular aircraft landing area
7 Chance Bay and Moon Island regular aircraft landing area
8 Happy Bay and Fish and Palm Bays regular aircraft landing area
9 Dent Passage and Dent and Hamilton Islands regular aircraft landing area
10 Plantation Bay and Seaforth Island regular aircraft landing area
11 Hayman, Langford and Black Islands regular aircraft landing area
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Schedule 9—Definitions
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Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history