Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2008 (125 of 2008)

Schedule 3   Proclaiming the Marine Park, zoning plans and plans of management

Part 2   Amendment of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

37   Subsection 39ZD(2)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1A) The Authority must, in preparing the plan of management, have regard to the following:

(a) any key threatening process that is relevant to the area, species or ecological community to which the plan relates;

(b) any critical habitat that is in the area, or that is relevant to the species or ecological community, to which the plan relates;

(c) if the plan relates to a listed threatened species or a listed threatened ecological community - any approved conservation advice, recovery plan, threat abatement plan or wildlife conservation plan that is relevant to the species or ecological community;

(d) any plan made under the Marine Parks Act 2004 of Queensland or the Nature Conservation Act 1992 of Queensland that is relevant to the area, species or ecological community to which the plan relates.

(2) The plan of management must not be inconsistent with any of the following:

(a) a provision of this Act;

(b) a provision of a zoning plan in force for the area, or in force for an area relevant to the species or ecological community, to which the plan of management relates;

(c) if the plan of management relates to a listed threatened species or a listed threatened ecological community - a recovery plan or threat abatement plan that is relevant to the species or ecological community.