(1) A special tourism permission is a special permission .
(2) A permission to operate a heli-pontoon facility of the kind mentioned in subclause 1.37(2) of the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998 is a special permission .
(3) A permission to operate a private mooring is a special permission if:
(a) the private mooring:
(i) is in a location listed in Schedule 6 to the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998 ; or
(ii) is of a kind mentioned in subclause 1.37(1) of the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998 ;
but is not a private mooring of a kind mentioned in paragraph 1.36(3)(a), (b), (c), (e) or (f), clause 1.38 or subclause 1.39(7) of the Cairns Area Plan of Management 1998 ; or
(b) either:
(i) the private mooring is in the Whitsunday Planning Area and the permission was in force immediately before 18 December 2008, but is not a private mooring of a kind mentioned in subclause 1.27(2) of the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998 ; or
(ii) the permission is a permission of a kind mentioned in subclause 1.27(3) or (4) of the Whitsundays Plan of Management 1998 ; or
(c) the private mooring is in the Hinchinbrook Planning Area and the permission was in force immediately before 15 April 2004, but the private mooring is not of a kind referred to in subclause 1.29(1) of the Hinchinbrook Plan of Management 2004 .