Great Barrier Reef (Declaration of Amalgamated Marine Park Area) Proclamation 2004 (Cth)

Great Barrier Reef (Declaration of Amalgamated Marine Park Area) Proclamation 2004

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make this Proclamation under section 31 of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

Signed and sealed with the Great Seal of Australia on 8 April 2004

P.M. JEFFERY Governor-General By His Excellency's Command

DAVID KEMP Minister for the Environment and Heritage

Contents

1 Name of Proclamation 2 Commencement 3 Definitions 4 Declaration of part of Marine Park 5 Revocation

Schedule 1 Great Barrier Reef Marine Park — Amalgamated Great Barrier Reef Section

1 Name of Proclamation

This Proclamation is the Great Barrier Reef (Declaration of Amalgamated Marine Park Area) Proclamation 2004.

2 Commencement

This Proclamation commences on 1 July 2004.

3 Definitions

(1) In this Proclamation: Act means the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

(2) In Schedule 1: (a) a reference to the coastal 1 kilometre line is a reference to a notional line every point on which is: (a) 1 kilometre seaward from the nearest point of the land at low water to which the line relates; or (b) if a fringing reef is adjacent to the land — 1 kilometre seaward from the nearest point of the reef edge to which the line relates; and (b) a reference to the 5 kilometre line is a reference to a notional line every point on which is 5 kilometres seaward from the nearest point of the land at low water to which the line relates.

(3) Geographic coordinates in Schedule 1 are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994.