Maritime Archaeology Amendment Act 1997 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY

AMENDMENT ACT 1997

No. 44 of 1997

AN ACT to provide a register of discoverers of ancient

shipwrecks.

[Assented to 9 December 1997.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Maritime Archaeology

Amendment Act 1997.

Commencement

2.   This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

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s. 3

Principal Act

3.   In this Act the Maritime Archaeology Act 1973 is referred to

as the principal Act.

New section 24

4.   The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 23

the following —

‘‘

Register of discoverers of ancient

shipwrecks

24. (1) In order to give statutory recognition to the primary and secondary discoverers of ancient shipwrecks there shall be a register of discoverers of ancient shipwrecks constituted by Schedule 3 to this Act.

(2) In this section —

‘‘ancient shipwreck’’ means any of the ships wrecked off the coast of Western Australia and known as the Tryall, the Batavia, the Vergulde Draeck, the Zuytdorp, or the Zeewyk; and

‘‘primary discoverer’’ and ‘‘secondary discoverer’’ have the meanings given to those terms by the Select Committee on Ancient Shipwrecks Report tabled in the Legislative Assembly on 17 August 1994.

(3) The Third Schedule has effect.

’’.

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s. 5

New Third Schedule

5.   The principal Act is amended by inserting after the Second

Schedule the following —

‘‘

THIRD SCHEDULE [s. 24]

REGISTER OF DISCOVERERS OF

ANCIENT SHIPWRECKS

Name of Ship	Primary	Secondary
Discoverer/s	Discoverer/s
Tryall	Eric Christiansen	Naoom Haimson David Nelley John MacPherson Alan Robinson
Batavia	Henrietta Drake-	Greg Allen

Brockman Graham Cramer

Max Cramer	Bruce Melrose
Hugh Edwards Dave Johnson

Vergulde Draeck Graeme Henderson John Cowen Alan Henderson James Henderson Alan Robinson

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s. 5

Name of Ship	Primary	Secondary
Discoverer/s	Discoverer/s