ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 390J Revoking and altering conservation zones

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 390J

Proclamations to revoke or amend declaring Proclamation

  (1)   The Governor - General may, by Proclamation, revoke or amend a Proclamation made under section   390D (declaring a Commonwealth area to be a conservation zone).

Limit on making Proclamations

  (2)   Before the Governor - General makes a Proclamation under subsection   (1) causing a Commonwealth area to cease to be within a conservation zone, the Minister must be satisfied that the area should not be included in a Commonwealth reserve.

Declaration of Commonwealth reserve revokes conservation zone

  (3)   A Commonwealth area ceases to be a conservation zone by force of this subsection if the area becomes or is included in a Commonwealth reserve.

Conservation zone ends if it ceases to be in Commonwealth area

  (4)   If land, waters, seabed or airspace in a conservation zone cease to be a Commonwealth area, the land, waters, seabed or airspace cease to be (or be in) a conservation zone by force of this subsection.

Proclamation to reflect cessation of conservation zone

  (5)   If land, waters, seabed or airspace cease to be a conservation zone by force of subsection   (3) or (4), the Governor - General must make a Proclamation revoking or amending the Proclamation that included the land, waters, seabed or airspace in a conservation zone, to reflect the fact that the land, waters, seabed or airspace are no longer part of the conservation zone.