Commonwealth legislation

Beaches Protection Regulations

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

150 of 1936

Collection

legislative instrument

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What this does: These regulations ban ships from dumping garbage, rubbish, ashes, or food waste (organic refuse) into a specific stretch of ocean off the New South Wales coast.

Where it applies: The restricted zone covers the coastal waters between Sugarloaf Point (near Seal Rocks, north of Newcastle) and Wata Mooli Head (near Port Hacking, south of Sydney). The exact boundary is drawn using precise latitude and longitude coordinates that extend east from these headlands into the Tasman Sea.

Why it matters: This creates a protected "no-dumping" zone to keep beaches and fishing grounds clean by preventing vessels from discharging waste while passing through these popular coastal areas.

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Beaches Protection Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1936. No. 150.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE BEACHES, FISHING GROUNDS AND SEA ROUTES PROTECTION ACT 1932.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Beaches, Fishing Grounds and Sea Routes Protection Act 1932.

Dated this tenth day of November,1936.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. M. HUGHES

Minister of State for Health.

Amendment of the Beaches Protection Regulations.†

The Beaches Protection Regulations are repealed and the following regulations inserted in their stead:—

“1. These Regulations may be cited as the Beaches Protection Regulations.

“2. An area at sea within which the discharge into the sea from vessels of any garbage, rubbish, ashes or organic refuse is prohibited shall be an area bounded by a line drawn from Sugarloaf Point, New South Wales (Latitude 32° 26’ South, Longitude 152° 33’ East), to a position fifteen miles 111° from such point (in Latitude 32° 32’ South, Longitude 152° 49½’ East); thence to a position fifteen and one half miles 111° from Wata Mooli Head (in Latitude 34° 14’ South, Longitude 151° 26’ East); thence to Wata Mooli Head; thence following the coast northwards to Sugarloaf Point.”

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1936.

† Statutory Rules 1933, No. 8.

By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

5842.—6/29.10.1936.—Price 3d.

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

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