Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Proclamation Lord Howe Island Marine Park (07/06/2000) (Cth)

PROCLAMATION

National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia,

acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under subsection 7(2) of the National Parks and Wildlife and Conservation Act 1975:

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

(b)assign to the Park the name “Lord Howe Island Marine Park”; and

(c)specify that the subsoil extending to a depth of 100 metres below the sea-bed within

the declared area is within the Park.

Signed and sealed with the

Great Seal of Australia

on  7 June     2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

Robert Hill

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

Schedule

Lord Howe Island Marine Park

"The area of the Australian coastal sea that lies between 3 and 12 nautical miles extending from the territorial sea baselines* around Lord Howe Island, Ball’s Pyramid and their adjacent islands**.

*  The territorial sea baselines are proclaimed under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

** Lord Howe Island, Ball’s Pyramid and their adjacent islands are parts of the State of New South Wales."