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Declaration of adjacent coastal area of Australia

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The Minister declared a specific maritime zone the “adjacent coastal area of Australia” under the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, fixing its limits by latitude/longitude and the Treaty line in Annex 5.

The instrument itself creates only a legal geographic label; it matters because that label determines the spatial scope to which other statutory rules, licensing or enforcement measures under the Act may later apply, affecting fishers, regulators and operators in the area.

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Declaration of adjacent coastal area of Australia

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Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984

ADJACENT COASTAL AREA OF AUSTRALIA

i, john charles kerin, the Minister of State for Pri- mary Industry, pursuant to paragraph (3) (a) of section 3 of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, hereby declare the area described in the Schedule to be the adjacent coastal area of Australia.

SCHEDULE

The area of Australia adjacent to the Protected Zone and to the south of the line described in Annex 5 to the Torres Strait Treaty that is –

(a) to the east of the meridian of Longitude 142° East;

(b) to the north of the parallel of Latitude 11° South;

Dated this twentieth day of March 1985.

JOHN KERIN

Minister of State for Primary Industry

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