Proclamation - Flinders Marine Park

Proclamation ‑ Flinders Marine Park

made under subsection 344(1) of the

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Compilation No. 1

Compilation date:   11 October 2017

Includes amendments up to: F2017L01337

Registered:    19 October 2017

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This is a compilation of the Proclamation - Flinders Marine Park that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 11 October 2017 (the compilation date).

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I, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Deputy for the Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under subsection 344(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999:

 (a) declare the area specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Proclamation to be a Commonwealth reserve for the purposes of protecting and maintaining biological diversity and contributing to the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas; and

 (b) specify that the seabed to a depth of 100 metres, is included in the reserve; and

 (c) give the reserve the name “Flinders Marine Park”; and

 (d) assign the reserve to the IUCN category of strict nature reserve; and

 (e) divide the reserve into zones and assign an IUCN category to each zone, as follows:

 (i) Sanctuary Area Zone being the area specified in Part 2 of the Schedule and assigned to the IUCN category Strict Nature Reserve; and

 (ii) Multiple Use Area Zone being the area specified in Part 3 of the Schedule and assigned to the IUCN category Managed Resource Protected Area.

Schedule—Flinders Marine Park

Part 1—Flinders Marine Park

All of that area within the Tasman Sea contained within and bounded as follows*:

 (i) commencing at the point of latitude 40 degrees 27 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes 12 seconds east;

 (ii) then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 21 minutes 15 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 58 minutes 48 seconds east;

 (iii) then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the intersection of the parallel of latitude 38 degrees 57 minutes south, with the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone**;

 (iv) then generally south‑westerly along the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 40 degrees 1 minute 15 seconds south;

 (v) then south‑westerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 47 minutes 15 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 51 minutes 33 seconds east;

 (vi) then south‑westerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 51 minutes 1 second south, longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes 12 seconds east; and

 (vii) then north along the meridian of longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes 12 seconds east, to the point of commencement.

Part 2—Sanctuary Area Zone (IUCN Category Ia ‑ Strict Nature Reserve)

All of that area within the Tasman Sea contained within and bounded as follows*:

 (i) commencing at the point of latitude 40 degrees 21 minutes 15 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 58 minutes 48 seconds east;

 (ii) then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the intersection of the parallel of latitude 38 degrees 57 minutes south, with the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone**;

 (iii) then generally south‑westerly along the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 40 degrees 1 minute 15 seconds south;

 (iv) then south‑westerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 47 minutes 15 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 51 minutes 33 seconds east; and

 (v) then northerly along the geodesic to the point of commencement.

Part 3—Multiple Use Area Zone (IUCN Category VI ‑ Managed Resource Protected Area)

All of that area within the Tasman Sea contained within and bounded as follows*:

 (i) commencing at the point of latitude 40 degrees 27 minutes 55 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes 12 seconds east;

 (ii) then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 21 minutes 15 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 58 minutes 48 seconds east;

 (iii) then southerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 47 minutes 15 seconds south, longitude 148 degrees 51 minutes 33 seconds east;

 (iv) then south‑westerly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 40 degrees 51 minutes 1 second south, longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes 12 seconds east; and

 (v) then north along the meridian of longitude 148 degrees 35 minutes 12 seconds east, to the point of commencement.

* All geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) as described in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette GN35 of 6 September 1995.

** The exclusive economic zone in relation to Australia and its external territories has been declared under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Proclamation dated 26 July 1994 published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette S290 of 29 July 1994).

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