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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Proclamation - Lord Howe Island Marine Park (07/06/2000)

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This Proclamation creates the Lord Howe Island Marine Park, bringing federal protection to coastal waters around Lord Howe Island and Ball's Pyramid between 3 and 12 nautical miles, from the surface down to 100 metres below the sea bed. It extends conservation management for a World Heritage reef ecosystem. (Made under the earlier National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act.)

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Proclamation - Lord Howe Island Marine Park (07/06/2000)

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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

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."

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1 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Proclamation - Lord Howe Island Marine Park (07/06/2000)