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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 1983
61No Dories Detached (Marine National Park Zone) SMAs—special management provisions
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#### 61 No Dories Detached (Marine National Park Zone) SMAs—special management provisions
(1) Subject to the exceptions in subregulation (2), a dory must be physically attached to its primary commercial fishing vessel at all times.
(2) The exceptions are the following:
(a) that the relevant dory was engaged in the rescue or attempted rescue of an endangered person;
(b) that the relevant dory was providing assistance to an endangered aircraft, vessel or structure to prevent or mitigate damage to the environment or to the aircraft, vessel or structure;
(c) that the relevant dory was conveying a person on a direct journey from land to its primary commercial fishing vessel (the primary vessel), or from the primary vessel to land, and throughout the journey the primary vessel remained within 1 nautical mile of both the dory and the land (not including any coral reefs);
(d) that at the relevant time the relevant dory was in the area described in Part 6 of Schedule 1 to the Zoning Plan as MNP‑13‑1015 (Night Island) and stayed within 500 metres of a fishing industry service vessel for which a permission is in force.