PROCLAMATION
National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975
I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia,
acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under subsection 7(2) of the National Parks and Wildlife and Conservation Act 1975:
(a) declare the area specified in the Schedule to be a Park; and
(b) assign to the Park the name “Lord Howe Island Marine Park”; and
(c) specify that the subsoil extending to a depth of 100 metres below the sea-bed within
the declared area is within the Park.
Signed and sealed with the
Great Seal of Australia
on 7 June 2000
WILLIAM DEANE
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command
Robert Hill
Minister for the Environment and Heritage
Schedule
Lord Howe Island Marine Park
"The area of the Australian coastal sea that lies between 3 and 12 nautical miles extending from the territorial sea baselines* around Lord Howe Island, Ball’s Pyramid and their adjacent islands**.
* The territorial sea baselines are proclaimed under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.
** Lord Howe Island, Ball’s Pyramid and their adjacent islands are parts of the State of New South Wales."