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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2019
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Amendment (Heritage
Listing for the Bight) Bill 2019
No. , 2019
(Ms Sharkie)
A Bill for an Act to include the Great Australian
Bight in the National Heritage List, and for related
purposes
No. , 2019
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment
(Heritage Listing for the Bight) Bill 2019
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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No. , 2019
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment
(Heritage Listing for the Bight) Bill 2019
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A Bill for an Act to include the Great Australian
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Bight in the National Heritage List, and for related
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purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity
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Conservation Amendment (Heritage Listing for the Bight) Act
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2019.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
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1999
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1 Subsection 324C(1)
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Omit "BB", substitute "BB, BBA".
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2 Subsection 324C(2)
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After "List", insert "in accordance with Subdivision BA, BB or BC".
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3 After Subdivision BB of Division 1A of Part 15
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Insert:
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Subdivision BBA--Inclusion of places in the National Heritage
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List: Great Australian Bight heritage area
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324RA Inclusion of Great Australian Bight heritage area
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(1) As soon as practicable after the commencement of this section, the
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Minister must, by instrument published in the Gazette, include in
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the National Heritage List:
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(a) the Great Australian Bight heritage area; and
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(b) the National Heritage values the Minister believes the Great
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Australian Bight heritage area has or may have.
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(2) Before including a National Heritage value for the Great Australian
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Bight heritage area in the National Heritage List, the Minister must
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consult any communities in Western Australia or South Australia
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likely to be affected by the inclusion of the Great Australian Bight
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heritage area in the National Heritage List.
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(3) Despite anything else in this Act, the Great Australian Bight
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heritage area must not be removed from the National Heritage List.
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(4) For the purposes of this section, the Great Australian Bight
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heritage area is the Commonwealth area in the Southern Ocean:
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(a) with:
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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(i) the western boundary extending along the
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123°20'0.00"E line of longitude; and
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(ii) the eastern boundary extending along the 140°34'8.13"E
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line of longitude; and
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(b) within the outer limits of the continental shelf (within the
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meaning of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973) of
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Australia (not including its external Territories).
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