EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations (Amendment)
STATUTORY RULES 1988, NO. 338
Subsection 21(1) of the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983 (the Act) empowers the Governor-General to make regulations, inter alia, prescribing matters permitted by the Act to be prescribed.
In December 1987, the Commonwealth Government submitted a property under the name ‘Wet Tropical Rainforests of North-East Australia’ to the World Heritage Committee, for inscription on the World Heritage List maintained by the Committee under the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. The property became ‘identified property’ under the Act by virtue of this nomination. Regulations under the World Heritage Properties Conservation Regulations (the Principal Regulations) were made to confer protection on the property.
On 9 December 1988, the World Heritage Committee inscribed the property, with minor boundary changes which the Commonwealth Government had proposed, and under the name ‘Wet Tropics of Queensland’, in the World Heritage List.
The Principal Regulations have since been amended by the introduction of Regulations 3C and 3D, which extend to the ‘Wet Tropics of Queensland’, within the new boundaries set out in Schedule 2B to the Principal Regulations, the same protections as are applied by Regulations 3A and 3B to the property described as the ‘Wet Tropical Rainforests of North-East Australia’ under the original boundaries, as set out in Schedule 2A.
The present Regulations now repeal Regulations 3A and 3B of, and Schedule 2A to, the Principal Regulations, which are no longer required.
Authorised by the Minister for the Arts and Territories