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 “Beagle 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
Beagle Commonwealth Marine Reserve
 
All of that area within Bass Strait, excluding any coastal waters* in relation to the State of Victoria or the State of Tasmania, contained within and bounded as follows**:
 
(i)                 commencing at the point of latitude 39 degrees 6 minutes south, longitude 147 degrees 6 minutes east;
(ii)                then south-easterly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 39 degrees 22 minutes south, longitude 147 degrees 28 minutes east;
(iii)              then south along the meridian of longitude 147 degrees 28 minutes east, to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 36 minutes south;
(iv)              then west along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 36 minutes south, to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 146 degrees 34 minutes east;
(v)               then north along the meridian of longitude 146 degrees 34 minutes east, to its intersection with the outer limit of the coastal waters* of Victoria at approximate latitude 39 degrees 16 minutes 32 seconds south;
(vi)              then easterly and generally northerly along the outer limit of the coastal waters* of Victoria to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 6 minutes south; and
(vii)            then west along the parallel of latitude 39 degrees 6 minutes south 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.