Proclamation in pursuance of sections 6 and 7 of the Act (2006-166) (NSW)

2006 No 166

New South Wales

Proclamation

under the

Marine Parks Act 1997

MARIE BASHIR, Governor I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, CVO, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of sections 6 and 7 of the Marine Parks Act 1997, do, by this my Proclamation, declare the area described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 below to be, on and from 7 April 2006, a marine park for the purposes of that Act. The marine park is to be known as “Batemans Marine Park”. Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 5th day of April 2006.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

IAN MACDONALD, M.L.C., Minister for Primary Industries

BOB DEBUS, M.P.,

Minister for the Environment

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Published in Gazette No 49 of 7 April 2006, page 2021	Page 1
2006 No 166	Proclamation
Schedule 1
Schedule 1
Part 1	Definitions

In this Schedule:
territorial sea baseline means the territorial sea baseline declared under section 7 of
the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 of the Commonwealth in the
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No S29 of 9 February 1983.
tidal lands means any area of land that is covered from time to time by tidal waters
and that is above the lowest astronomical tide level.

tidal waters means any area of waters of the sea or subject to tidal influence.

Part 2 Description of the area to be known as
Batemans Marine Park

The boundary encompasses all lands beneath tidal and coastal waters to mean high water mark within the area set out below, together with the waters within that area:

(a)	commencing at a point at the intersection of the mean high water mark and latitude 35°31´10.8″S at the most northerly point of Murramarang Beach, near Bawley Point,
(b)	then by a line along latitude 35°31´10.8″S to a point 3 nautical miles east of the territorial sea baseline,
(c)	then generally in a southerly direction (including all coastal waters within 3 nautical miles of the territorial sea baseline of the coast and within 3 nautical miles of the territorial sea baseline of Brush Island, Tollgate Islands, Broulee Island and Montague Island) to a point 3 nautical miles east of the territorial sea baseline at the southern side of the Wallaga Lake entrance at Murunna Point,
(d)	then by a line along latitude 36°22´23.0″S, west to a point at the intersection of the mean high water mark and latitude 36°22´23.0″S at Murunna Point,
(e)	then generally in a northerly direction along the coast at mean high water mark (including all rivers, estuaries, bays, lagoons and inlets upstream to their tidal limit, and tidal lands, and saline and brackish coastal lakes excluding Nargal Lake) to the commencement point described in paragraph (a) above.

BY AUTHORITY