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Sustainable Ports Development Act 2015
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### sec.2 Purpose of Act
The purpose of this Act is to provide for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area through managing port-related development in and adjacent to the area.
The purpose is achieved by—
prohibiting particular future development in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area; and
providing for the development of master plans that establish a long-term vision for the future development of priority ports consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development; and
implementing master plans through port overlays that regulate development in and surrounding priority ports.
Also, the purpose is to be achieved in a way that includes the following—
long-term planning for priority ports to provide a strategic and coordinated approach to managing economic, environmental, cultural and social values in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area;
concentrating port development in priority ports;
recognising the diverse functions of the port network, including trade, tourism and defence operations;
efficiently using port and supply chain infrastructure;
expanding port and supply chain capacity in a staged and incremental way to meet emerging demand for imports and exports;
identifying and protecting land and infrastructure critical to the effective operation of the port network.
(sec.2-ssec.1) The purpose of this Act is to provide for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area through managing port-related development in and adjacent to the area.
(sec.2-ssec.2) The purpose is achieved by— prohibiting particular future development in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area; and providing for the development of master plans that establish a long-term vision for the future development of priority ports consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development; and implementing master plans through port overlays that regulate development in and surrounding priority ports.
(sec.2-ssec.3) Also, the purpose is to be achieved in a way that includes the following— long-term planning for priority ports to provide a strategic and coordinated approach to managing economic, environmental, cultural and social values in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area; concentrating port development in priority ports; recognising the diverse functions of the port network, including trade, tourism and defence operations; efficiently using port and supply chain infrastructure; expanding port and supply chain capacity in a staged and incremental way to meet emerging demand for imports and exports; identifying and protecting land and infrastructure critical to the effective operation of the port network.
- (a) prohibiting particular future development in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area; and
- (b) providing for the development of master plans that establish a long-term vision for the future development of priority ports consistent with the principles of ecologically sustainable development; and
- (c) implementing master plans through port overlays that regulate development in and surrounding priority ports.
- (a) long-term planning for priority ports to provide a strategic and coordinated approach to managing economic, environmental, cultural and social values in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area;
- (b) concentrating port development in priority ports;
- (c) recognising the diverse functions of the port network, including trade, tourism and defence operations;
- (d) efficiently using port and supply chain infrastructure;
- (e) expanding port and supply chain capacity in a staged and incremental way to meet emerging demand for imports and exports;
- (f) identifying and protecting land and infrastructure critical to the effective operation of the port network.