Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Proclamation Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve (03/08/1982) (Cth)

PROCLAMATION

Commonwealth of

Australia

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency the

Governor-General of

the Commonwealth of

Australia

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (2) of section 7 of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 that, amongst other things, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare an area specified in the Proclamation to be a reserve and assign a name to that reserve.

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (11) of that section that the Governor-General shall not make a Proclamation under that section, other than a Proclamation in relation to certain land or sea in the Northern Territory of Australia referred to in sub-section (11A) of that section, except after consideration by the Federal Executive Council of a report by the Director of National Parks and Wildlife in relation to the matter dealt with by the Proclamation.

AND WHEREAS the Federal Executive Council has considered a report by the Director of National Parks and Wildlife in relation to the declaration of the area specified in the Schedule to be a reserve.

NOW THEREFORE I, Sir Ninian Martin Stephen, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby

(a)        declare the area specified in the Schedule to be a reserve;

(b)        assign to that reserve the name ‘Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve’; and

(c)        for the purposes of paragraphs (6) (a) and (c) of that section, specify a depth of 1,000 metres.

SCHEDULE

Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve

The area of the boundary which

1. commences at the point of Longitude 150^o5’East Latitude 17^o11’South;

1. runs thence west along the parallel of Latitude 17^o11’South to its intersection by the meridian of Longitude 149^oEast;

1. runs thence north along the last-mentioned meridian to its intersection by the parallel of Latitude 16^o46’South;

1. runs thence east along the last-mentioned parallel to its intersection by the meridian of Longitude 149^o48’East;

1. runs thence north-easterly along the geodesic to the point of Longitude 150^o12’East Latitude 16^o23’South;

1. runs thence east along the parallel of Latitude 16^o23’South to its intersection by the meridian of Longitude 150^o30’East;

1. runs thence south along the last-mentioned meridian to its intersection by the parallel of Latitude 16^o52’South; and

1. runs thence south-westerly along the geodesic to the point of commencement.

 (L. S.) GIVEN under my Hand

and the Great Seal of Australia

on 3 August 1982.

By His Excellency’s Command

D. T. McVEIGH

Minister of State for

Home Affairs and Environment

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