Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Amendment Proclamation Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve (04/11/2004) (Cth)

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. 32 of 16 August 1983 establishing Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve 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

SCHEDULE

Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve

All of that area within the Indian Ocean contained within and bounded as follows*:

1. commencing at the point of latitude 12 degrees 9 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 0 minutes 4.5 seconds east;

1. then east along the parallel of latitude 12 degrees 9 minutes 55 seconds south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 123 degrees 14 minutes 4.5 seconds east;

(iii)then generally southeast along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 12 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 16 minutes 4.5 seconds east;

1. then south along the meridian of longitude 123 degrees 16 minutes 4.5 seconds east to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 12 degrees 15 minutes 55 seconds south;

1. then generally southwest along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 19 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 10 minutes 4.5 seconds east;

1. then generally west along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 18 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 123 degrees 0 minutes 4.5 seconds east;

(vii)then generally northwest along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 13 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 122 degrees 53 minutes 4.5 seconds east;

1. then generally northeast along the geodesic to the point of latitude 12 degrees 11 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 122 degrees 55 minutes 4.5 seconds east; and

1. then generally northeast along the geodesic 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.