Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection (Butterfly Cave, West Wallsend, NSW) Declaration 2019 (Cth)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection (Butterfly Cave, West Wallsend, NSW) Declaration 2019

I, Melissa Price, Minister for the Environment, make the following declaration.

Dated 31 January 2019

Melissa Price Minister for the Environment

Part 1—Preliminary matters

1 Name This instrument is the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection (Butterfly Cave, West Wallsend, NSW) Declaration 2019.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day after registration.

3 Authority This instrument is made under section 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984.

4 Definitions In this instrument: Act means the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984. authorised person has the meaning given by subsection 6(5). boundary line has the meaning given by item 1 of Schedule 1. declared area means the area described in section 5 of this instrument. Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) means Australia's current national datum system. A geodetic datum is a system of latitude and longitude coordinates and reference points that is used to locate places on the Earth. MGA94 means the Map Grid of Australia, the standard map projection associated with GDA94. It is a 'Cartesian coordinate system' which uses eastings and northings rather than latitude/longitude, and in which the world is divided up into 60 zones for reference. land includes soil and vegetation.

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984, including the following: (a) Aboriginal; (b) area; (c) significant Aboriginal area.

Part 2—Declaration to preserve and protect a significant Aboriginal area

5 Declared area (1) The area to which this declaration applies (the declared area) is the area bounded by the boundary line. Note: The boundary line is defined in Schedule 1. (2) The position of the declared area is to be determined by reference to the Geocentric Datum of Australia 94 and MGA94 . Note: Geocentric Datum of Australia and MGA94 are defined in section 4. (3) The following map illustrates the declared area: