Determination Relating to Anchoring of Vessels Mermaid Reef Marine Park (Cth)

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000

Subregulation 12.56(2)

DETERMINATION RELATING TO ANCHORING OF VESSELS

MERMAID REEF MARINE PARK

I, JASON MUNDY, Acting Director of National Parks, under subregulation 12.56(2) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000, HEREBY DETERMINE:

1. that a vessel may anchor only in the anchoring area specified in the Schedule hereto and more or less shown on the map in the Schedule; and

2. a vessel must not raft up to another vessel at anchor in the anchoring area unless the vessel is a tender to the vessel at anchor; and

3. a vessel at anchor must not be left unattended at any time.

Note: This determination does not exclude anchoring, where reasonably necessary to deal with an emergency involving a serious threat to human life or property.

In this determination:

raft up means tethering a vessel to an anchored vessel without deploying additional anchor/s;

tender means an auxiliary vessel dispatched to carry out activities for a purpose associated with its parent vessel's operation.

AND I HEREBY REVOKE the Determination made on 14 December 2013 relating to anchoring of vessels in Mermaid Reef Marine Park, notified in the Gazette (C2013G01931) and published on 19 December 2013.

Dated this 27 th day of June 2018

SIGNED

Jason Mundy

SCHEDULE

MERMAID REEF MARINE PARK

Anchoring Area

All of that area bounded by the line:

1. commencing at the point of latitude 17° 04′ 16.32″ S, longitude 119° 38′ 09.18″ E; 2. from there easterly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 17° 04′ 15.18″ S, longitude 119° 38′ 24.00″ E; 3. from there south-easterly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 17° 04′ 39.12″ S, longitude 119° 38′ 43.62″ E; 4. from there westerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 17° 04′ 34.32″ S, longitude 119° 38′ 15.90″ E; and 5. from there north-westerly along the geodesic to the point of commencement.