PROCLAMATION
 
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
 
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 “Apollo Commonwealth Marine Reserve”; and
 
(d)   assign the reserve to the IUCN category of managed resource protected area.
 
This Proclamation commences 60 days after the date of registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
 
 
 
Signed and sealed with the
Great Seal of Australia on                                 
28 June 2007
 
 
 
MARIE BASHIR
Deputy for the Governor-General
 
By Her Excellency’s Command
 
 
 
 
Malcolm Turnbull
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources
 
SCHEDULE
Apollo Commonwealth Marine Reserve
 
All of that area within the Southern Ocean and Bass Strait, excluding any coastal waters* in relation to the State of Victoria, contained within and bounded as follows**:
 
(i)                 commencing at the point of latitude 38 degrees 54 minutes 40 seconds south, longitude 143 degrees 30 minutes 5 seconds east;
(ii)                then east along the parallel of latitude 38 degrees 54 minutes 40 seconds south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 40 minutes 5 seconds east;
(iii)              then south along the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 40 minutes 5 seconds east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 11 minutes 55 seconds south;
(iv)              then east along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 11 minutes 55 seconds south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 144 degrees east;
(v)               then south along the meridian of longitude 144 degrees east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 21 minutes south;
(vi)              then west along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 21 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 30 minutes 5 seconds east; and
(vii)            then north along the meridian of longitude 143 degrees 30 minutes 5 seconds east, to the point of commencement.
 
*          The coastal waters are defined in relation to each State and the Northern Territory by the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 and Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980.
**        All geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) as described in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette GN35 of
6 September 1995.