Proclamation under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970

Proclamation under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council and with the approval of each House of Parliament, by this my proclamation made under sections 14(1) and 16(1) of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1970 declare –

(a) that the areas of Crown land declared to be known as Judgment Rocks Nature Reserve, as shown and specified in the proclamation notified in the Gazette as Statutory Rules 1978, No. 73, cease to be reserved land; and

(b) that the area of land specified in, and given the name Deal Island Conservation Area in, the proclamation notified in the Gazette as Statutory Rules 2000, No. 117 ceases to be reserved land; and

(c) the area of Crown land specified in Schedule 1 to this proclamation to be reserved land in the class of national park and give the name Kent Group National Park to that reserved land; and

(d) that this proclamation takes effect on the day on which its making is notified in the Gazette.

17 December 2001

G. S. M. GREEN

Governor

By His Excellency's Command,

D. E. LLEWELLYN

Minister for Primary Industries, Water and Environment

SCHEDULE 1 - Kent Group National Park

All those areas of land comprising about 2 374 hectares shown bounded by heavy black lines on Plan Number 5812 in the Central Plan Register, a reduced copy of which is set out, by way of illustration only, in Schedule 2 to this proclamation.

SCHEDULE 2 - Plan

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 26 December 2001

This proclamation is administered in the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the proclamation)

This proclamation declares –

(a) that an area of Crown land known as Judgment Rocks Nature Reserve ceases to be reserve land; and

(b) that an area of land given the name Deal Island Conservation Area ceases to be reserved land; and

(c) an area of Crown land to be reserved land in the class of national park and names that land Kent Group National Park.