Pearl Fisheries Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No. .

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REGULATION UNDER THE PEARL FISHERIES ACT 1952-1953.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Pearl Fisheries Act 1952-1953.

Dated this  twelfth

day of  May,  1954.

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

Amendments of the Pearl Fisheries Regulation. 

The Third Schedule to the Pearl Fisheries Regulations is amended—

(a)by inserting after the descriptions of. the area of waters shortly described in the first column of that Schedule as Sub-area 19 of the Northern Territory Division the  following words :—

“ Sub-area 20 of the Northern Territory Division The area of waters bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the parallel 11 degrees 34 minutes south latitude with the meridian 135 degrees east longitude ; thence proceeding along that parallel to its intersection with the meridian 135 degrees 51 minutes east longitude ; thence proceeding in a straight line to the intersection of the parallel 10 degrees 49 minutes south latitude with the meridian 136 degrees 46 minutes east longitude ; thence proceeding along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel 9 degrees 32 minutes south latitude ; thence proceeding in a straight line to the intersection of the parallel 9 degrees 2 minutes south latitude with the meridian 135 degrees 38 minutes east longitude ; thence proceeding along that parallel to its intersection with the meridian 135 degrees east longitude ; thence proceeding along that meridian to the point of commencement.” ; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1954.

 Statutory Rules 1953, No. 84.

1859.—Price 3d.  10/21.4.1954.

(b) by omitting from the full description of the area of waters shortly described in the first column of that Schedule as the Papuan Division the words—

 “ thence following the shores of that island at high water mark generally easterly as far as East Cape and thence generally north-easterly to the intersection of the south-eastern shore of the island of New Guinea with the parallel 8 degrees south latitude ”

and inserting in their stead the words—

“ thence following the shores of that island at high water mark generally easterly as far as East Cape and thence generally north-westerly to the intersection of the north-eastern shore of the island of New Guinea at high water mark with the parallel 8 degrees south latitude ”.

By Authority : L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.