Land Administration Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2000 (WA)

15 December 2000] GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, WA 7209

LAND ADMINISTRATION

LA301*

Land Administration Act 1997

Land Administration Amendment

Regulations (No. 3) 2000

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.           Citation

These regulations may be cited as the Land Administration
Amendment Regulations (No. 3) 2000.

2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on the day on which section 4 of the Acts Amendment (Australian Datum) Act 2000 comes into operation.

3.            Regulation 17A inserted

After regulation 17 of the Land Administration
Regulations 1998* the following regulation is inserted in
Part 2 —

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17A. Prescribed Australian datum for determining
Divisions of State

133° 12' 30.0771" east longitude; or

(1)	The position on the surface of the Earth of the Divisions referred to in section 6 of the Act are determined by reference to the Australian Geodetic Datum ("the AGD").
(2)	For the purposes of subregulation (1), the AGD is defined by an ellipsoid having a semi-major axis (equatorial radius) of 6 378 160 metres and a flattening of 1/298.25 and fixed by the position of the origin being the Johnston Geodetic Station in the Northern Territory of Australia.
(3)	The Johnston Geodetic Station is taken to be situated at —

(a) 25° 56' 54.5515" south latitude and

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(b) where decimal reckoning is used, 25° 56.90919'

south latitude and 133° 12.50129' east

longitude,

and to have a ground level elevation of 571.2 metres

above the ellipsoid referred to in subregulation (2).

[* Published in Gazette 27 March 1998, pp. 1743-61.

For amendments to 14 November 2000 see 1999 Index to
Legislation of Western Australia, Table 4, p. 155, and Gazette

16 June 2000.]

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.