Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Commonwealth Numbered Regulations(1) For the purposes of paragraph 66(2)(u) of the Act:
(a) the Authority must not grant a permission for the activity of reef walking in the Whitsunday Planning Area; and
(b) a permission that purports to give such permission is of no effect (subject to subsection (4)).
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect a permission to the extent that the permission deals with any other activity (whether or not the activity is in the Whitsunday Planning Area).
(3) Disregard any permission for the activity of reef walking in the Whitsunday Planning Area in determining:
(a) for the purposes of subsections 83(3) and 116(1), whether a replacement permission or further permission is a permission of the same kind; or
(b) for the purposes of subsection 123(3), whether a new permission has the same effect and the same conditions.
(4) Subsection (1) applies, for the permission set out in permit G14/36918.1 and the person that held the permission on 2 August 2017, in relation to carrying out the activity of reef walking at Langford Reef only on and after 1 June 2020.
Note: However, subsection (1) applies in relation to:
(a) reef walking in places in the Whitsunday Planning Area other than Langford Reef; and
(b) reef walking at Langford Reef under any permission arising from transferring or renewing that permission (whether the transfer or renewal occurs before, on or after 1 June 2020).