Proclamation under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 (TAS)

Proclamation under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council and with the approval of each House of Parliament, by this my proclamation made under section 15A(1) of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970  –

(a) declare the reserved land previously declared to be a conservation area by Statutory Rules 1995, No. 140 and specified in Schedule 1 to this proclamation to be reserved land in the class of national park; and (b) give the name Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park to that reserved land; and (c) declare that this proclamation takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the Gazette.

G. S. M. GREEN

Governor

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. E. LLEWELLYN

Minister for Primary Industries, Water and Environment

Schedule 1Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National ParkSchedule 2Plan

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 4 July 2001

This proclamation is administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the proclamation) This proclamation –

(a) alters the class of certain reserved land from conservation area to national park; and (b) gives the name Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park to that reserved land resulting in an extension of the national park of that name previously declared.