Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Aquaculture) Regulations 2000.

These Regulations concern aquaculture in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Section 66 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act allows the Governor-General to make Regulations, including Regulations regulating or prohibiting acts, in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park or elsewhere, that may pollute water in a manner harmful to animals and plants in the Marine Park. Aquaculture is the cultivation of aquatic animals under controlled conditions in a tank or enclosure. Aquaculture, unless properly regulated, is capable of causing significant water pollution both at the place of discharge and for some distance downstream. Regulation 9 makes it an offence to discharge aquaculture waste into "controlled areas" as defined in regulation 9. Regulation 9 is not taken to prohibit the discharge of waste from an aquaculture facility if the discharge is in accordance with a permission given by the Authority under Part 4. In addition, aquaculture may be carried on as authorized by a Queensland law that has been accredited by the Minister. Smaller aquaculture operations either are exempt or their operators are obliged to report periodically to the Authority. The rest of these Regulations set out laws in relation to applications to the Authority for permission to discharge aquaculture waste and make provision for enforcing the Regulations and the conditions of permissions. (62 regulations divided into 8 Parts)