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Proclamation—Kakadu National Park (5/4/1979)

as amended
made under section 344 of the

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

                     Compilation start date: 15 February 2013

                     Includes amendments up to: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Kakadu) Proclamation 2013
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This compilation

This is a compilation of the Proclamation—Kakadu National Park (5/4/1979) as in force on 15 February 2013. It includes any commenced amendment affecting the legislation to that date.

This compilation was prepared on 12 May 2014.

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WHEREAS it is provided by sub‑section 7 (2) 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:

NOW THEREFORE I, Sir Zelman Cowen, the Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby –

(a) declare the area specified in the Schedule to be a park;
(b) assign to that park the name 'Kakadu National Park'; and
    (c) specify the depth of 1000 metres below the surface of any land within the area so declared to be a park as the depth below that surface to which sub‑soil beneath that land shall be taken to be within the park.

Schedule—Description of Area of Park

Part I

All that piece of land in the Northern Territory of Australia containing an area of 5700 square kilometres more or less bounded by an imaginary line commencing at the intersection of the eastern boundary of Pastoral Lease 739 (Mudginberri) with the left bank of the East Alligator River; thence southerly by the eastern boundary of that pastoral lease and its southerly prolongation to its intersection with the parallel of south latitude 12° 42' 39"; thence westerly by that parallel to its intersection with the meridian