Historic Shipwrecks Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 124

REGULATION UNDER THE HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT

19761

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976.

 Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

R. J. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for Home Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS

REGULATIONS2

Prohibition of certain activities in protected zone

 Regulation 4 of the Historic Shipwrecks Regulations is amended–

• (a)

  by omitting “Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.”; and

• (b)

  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

• “(2)

  A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this regulation is guilty of an offence and is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 July 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1978 No. 93.