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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 225
Australian Whale Sanctuary
- (1)
- The Australian Whale Sanctuary is established in order to give formal
recognition of the high level of protection and management afforded to
cetaceans in Commonwealth marine areas and prescribed waters.
- (2)
- The Australian Whale Sanctuary comprises:
- (a)
- the waters of the exclusive economic zone (other than the coastal waters
of a State or the Northern Territory); and
- (b)
- so much of the coastal waters of a State or the Northern Territory as are
prescribed waters; and
- (c)
- any marine or tidal waters that are inside the baseline of the territorial
sea adjacent to an external Territory, whether or not within the limits of an
external Territory.
- Note: Generally the baseline is the lowest astronomical tide along the coast
but it also includes lines enclosing bays and indentations that are not bays
and straight baselines that depart from the coast.
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