Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 Proclamation Mermaid Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve (21/03/1991) (Cth)
Proclamation—Mermaid Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve
as amended
made under section 344 of the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
This compilation was prepared on 17 November 2012
taking into account amendments up to Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve) Amendment Proclamation 2012 (No. 1)
Prepared by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel, Canberra
I, WILLIAM GEORGE HAYDEN, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and after consideration by the Executive Council of the annexed report by the Director of National Parks and Wildlife, under subsection 7(2) of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975:
(a) declare the area constituted by the area specified in the Schedule to be a reserve; and
(b) assign to the reserve the name “Mermaid Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve”; and
(c) specify the depth of 1,000 metres below the surface of any land within the area so declared as the depth to which the subsoil beneath that land is to be taken to be within the reserve; and
(d) specify the depth of 1,000 metres below the sea‑bed beneath any sea within the area so declared as the depth to which the subsoil beneath that sea‑bed is to be taken to be within the reserve.
Schedule Mermaid Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve
All of that area within the Indian Ocean contained within and bounded as follows*:
(i) commencing at the point of latitude 16 degrees 58 minutes south, longitude 119 degrees 32 minutes east;
(ii) then east along the parallel of latitude 16 degrees 58 minutes south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 119 degrees 43 minutes east;
(iii) then south along the meridian of longitude 119 degrees 43 minutes east to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 17 degrees 13 minutes south;
(iv) then west along the parallel of latitude 17 degrees 13 minutes south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 119 degrees 32 minutes east; and
(v) then north along the meridian of longitude 119 degrees 32 minutes east 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.
Notes to the Proclamation—Mermaid Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve
Note 1
The Proclamation—Mermaid Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve (in force under section 344 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) as shown in this compilation is amended as indicated in the Tables below.
Table of Instruments
| Title | Date of notification | Date of | Application, saving or |
| Proclamation—Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve (F2007B00727) (a) | 10 Apr 1991 (see Gazette 1991, No. GN13) | 10 Apr 1991 | |
| Amendment Proclamation—Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve 2004 (F2007B00724) | 17 Nov 2004 (see Gazette 2004, No. GN46) | 17 Nov 2004 | — |
| Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve) Amendment Procamlation 2012 (No. 1) | 16 Nov 2012 (see F2012L02183) | 17 Nov 2012 | — |
(a) This Proclamation was originally made under subsection 7 (2) of the National Parkes and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975, which was repealed on 16 July 2000, and pursuant to Part 2 of Schedule 4 of the Environment Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 1999 is continued in force under section 344 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
Table of Amendments
| ad. = added or inserted am. = amended rep. = repealed rs. = repealed and substituted | |
| Provision affected | How affected |
| Para. (b)................................. | am. 2012 No. 1 |
| Schedule | |
| Heading to Schedule.......... | rs. 2012 No. 1 |
| Schedule............................... | rs. F2007B00724 |
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