1Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - Proclamation - Uluru (Ayers Rock-Mount Olga) National Park (24/05/1977)

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (2) of section 7 of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 that, amongst other things, the Governor-General may, by Proclamation, declare an area specified in the Proclamation to be a park and assign a name to that park:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (11) of that section that the Governor-General shall not make a Proclamation under that section except after consideration by the Federal Executive Council of a report by the Director of National Parks and Wildlife in relation to the matter dealt with by the Proclamation:

AND WHEREAS the Federal Executive Council has considered a report by the Director of National Parks and Wildlife in relation to declaring the area specified in the Schedule to be a park:

AND WHEREAS, by reason of section 16A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, a reference in an Act to the Governor-General is, unless the contrary intention appears, to be deemed to include the person for the time being administering the Government of the Commonwealth and is, unless the contrary intention appears, to be read as referring to that person acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council:

NOW THEREFORE I, Sir Arthur Roden Cutler, the Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby declare the area specified in the Schedule, together with the subsoil beneath the land within that area extending to a depth of 1000 metres below the surface, to be a park and assign to that park the name 'Uluru (Ayers Rock-Mount Olga) National Park'.

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SCHEDULE

Description of Area of Park

All that piece of land in the Northern Territory of Australia containing an area of 132,550 hectares more or less commencing at the intersection of the parallel of latitude 25 degrees 16 minutes south with the prolongation north of the eastern boundary of the Petermann Aboriginal Reserve, then south along that prolongation to the parallel of latitude 25 degrees 25 minutes south, then west along that parallel to the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 40 minutes east, then north along that meridian to the parallel of latitude 25 degrees 4 minutes 54 seconds south, then south easterly to a point of latitude 25 degrees 7 minutes 24 seconds south and longitude 130 degrees 45 minutes east, then south along that meridian to the parallel of latitude 25 degrees 16 minutes south, then east along that parallel to the point of commencement, excepting-