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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Telecommunications Act 1997

Telecommunications (Compliance with International Conventions) Declaration No. 1 of 1997

I, RICHARD KENNETH ROBERT ALSTON, Minister for Communications and the Arts, under subsection 366(2) of the Telecommunications Act 1997, declare that, for the purposes of section 366 of that Act, the conventions specified in the Schedule are binding in relation to persons that are carriers or carriage service providers within the meaning of that Act.

Dated 18 June 1997.

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications and the Arts

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SCHEDULE

Item	Convention	Done at	Date
1	Convention for the Protection of Submarine Telegraph Cables	Paris	14 March 1884
2	Plant Protection Agreement for the Asia and Pacific region (as amended in 1979 and by the 1994 Amendment)	Rome	27 February 1956
3	Convention on the High Seas	Geneva	29 April 1958
4	Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (as amended by the 1982 Protocol and the 1987 Amendment)	Ramsar	2 February 1971
5	Agreement relating to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (INTELSAT) (as amended by the 1994 Amendment)	Washington	20 August 1971

SCHEDULE––continued

Item	Convention	Done at	Date
6	Operating Agreement relating to the International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (INTELSAT) (as amended by the 1995 Amendment)	Washington	20 August 1971
7	Convention on International Liability for Damage caused by Space Objects	London, Moscow, Washington	29 March 1972
8	Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the London Convention)

Item	Convention	Done at	Date
15	Convention on the Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific	Apia	12 June 1976
16	Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation (INMARSAT) (as amended by the 1985, 1989 and 1994 Amendments)	London	3 September 1976
17	Operating Agreement on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation (INMARSAT) (as amended by the 1985, 1989 and 1994 Amendments)	London	3 September 1976
18	Treaty between Australia and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea concerning Sovereignty and Maritime Boundaries in the area between the two Countries, including the area known as Torres Strait, and Related Matters	Sydney	18 December 1978
19	Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals	Bonn	23 June 1979
20	Revised Text of the International Plant Protection Convention of 6 December 1951	Rome	28 November 1979
21	United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea	Montego Bay	10 December 1982
22	Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer	Vienna	22 March 1985
23	International Agreement on the Use of INMARSAT Ship Earth Stations within the Territorial Seas and Ports	London	16 October 1985
24	Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the People’s Republic of China for the Protection of Migratory Birds and their Environment	Canberra	20 October 1986

Item	Convention	Done at	Date
25	Convention for the Protection of the Natural Resources and Environment of the South Pacific Region	Noumea	24 November 1986
26	Protocol for the Prevention of Pollution of the South Pacific Region by Dumping	Noumea	24 November 1986
27	Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (as amended by the 1992 and 1994 Amendments)	Montreal	16 September 1987
28	The International COSPAS-SARSAT (Search and Rescue Satellite) Programme Agreement	Paris	1 July 1988
29	Convention on the Controls of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal	Basel	22 March 1989
30	Treaty on the Zone of Cooperation in an Area between the Indonesian Province of East Timor and Northern Australia (Timor Gap Treaty)	Timor Sea	11 December 1989
31	Agreement between the Government of Australia and the Government of the USSR on Cooperation in the Field of Protection and Enhancement of the Environment	Canberra	15 February 1990
32	Letter of Notification of Association (of Australia) with the International COSPAS-SARSAT Programme as a Ground Segment Provider	London	23 May 1991
33	Convention on Biological Diversity	Rio de Janiero	5 June 1992
34	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change	New York	9 May 1992

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