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PROCLAMATION
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of
Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, and under
subsection 350(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999,
amend the Proclamation made under subsection 7(2) of the National Parks and Wildlife
Conservation Act 1975 and published in the Gazette No. S 172 of 22 April 1998
establishing the Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) by
omitting the schedule to that Proclamation and substituting the schedule to this
Proclamation.
Signed and sealed with the
Great Seal of Australia
on 4 November 2004
P. M. Jeffery
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
Ian Campbell
Minister for the Environment and Heritage
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SCHEDULE
Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters)
All of that area within the Southern Ocean contained within and bounded as follows*:
(i)
commencing at the intersection of the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes
south and the adjacent area** boundary between Western Australia and South
Australia;
(ii)
then generally north along that adjacent area boundary to its intersection with the
outer limit of the coastal waters*** of South Australia;
(iii) then generally east along the outer limit of the coastal waters of South Australia to
its intersection with the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes south;
(iv)
then west along the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes south to its
intersection with the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 51 minutes 58 seconds
east;
(v)
then south along the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 51 minutes 58 seconds east
to its intersection with the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone****;
(vi)
then generally northwest along the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone to
its intersection with the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 28 minutes 2 seconds
east;
(vii) then north along the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 28 minutes 2 seconds east
to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes south; and
(viii) then west along the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes to the point of
commencement.
*
All geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum of
Australia 1994 (GDA94) as described in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
GN35 of 6 September 1995.
**
The adjacent area in relation to each State and the Northern Territory is the area the
boundary of which is described under the headings referring to that State and the
Northern Territory in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967
immediately before the commencement of the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act
1980 and Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980.
*** The coastal waters are defined in relation to each State and the Northern Territory by
the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 and Coastal Waters (Northern Territory
Powers) Act 1980.
**** The exclusive economic zone in relation to Australia and its external territories has
been declared under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 in accordance with the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Proclamation dated 26 July 1994
published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. S 290 of 29 July 1994).
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