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Proclamation ‑ Nelson Marine Park
made under subsection 344(1) of the

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Compilation No. 1

Compilation date:   11 October 2017

Includes amendments up to: F2017L01337

Registered:    23 October 2017

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This compilation

This is a compilation of the Proclamation - Nelson Marine Park that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 11 October 2017 (the compilation date).

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I, PROFESSOR MARIE BASHIR, AC, CVO, Deputy for the Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under subsection 344(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999:
 (a) declare the area specified in the Schedule to this Proclamation to be a Commonwealth reserve for the purposes of protecting and maintaining biological diversity and contributing to the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas; and
 (b) specify that the seabed to a depth of 100 metres, is included in the reserve; and
 (c) give the reserve the name "Nelson Marine Park"; and
 (d) assign the reserve to the IUCN category of managed resource protected area.

Schedule—Nelson Marine Park

All of that area within the Southern Ocean contained within and bounded as follows*:
 (i) commencing at the point of latitude 38 degrees 50 minutes south,