Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Proclamation that:
(a) was made under subsection 7(2) of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 ; and
(b) was published in the Gazette on 5 April 1979; and
(c) declared the area specified in the Schedule to the Proclamation to be a park and assigned to that park the name "Kakadu National Park"; and
(d) was continued in force by Part 2 of Schedule 4 to the Environmental Reform (Consequential Provisions) Act 1999 so as to declare the area to be a Commonwealth reserve under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ;
is amended by omitting paragraph (b) of Part I of that Schedule and substituting the following paragraph:
"(b) all that piece of land in the Northern Territory of Australia containing an area of 1197 hectares more or less and bounded by an imaginary line commencing at the intersection of the parallel of south latitude 12° 52' 20" with the meridian of east longitude 132° 49' 41"; thence northeasterly by a straight line to the intersection of the parallel of south latitude 12° 51' 27" with the meridian of east longitude 132° 51' 44"; thence southeasterly by a straight line to the intersection of the parallel of south latitude 12° 52' 54" with the meridian of east longitude 132° 52' 17"; thence southwesterly by a straight line to the intersection of the parallel of south latitude 12° 53' 58" with the meridian of east longitude 132° 50' 37"; thence northwesterly by a straight line to the point of commencement;''.
(2) The amendment made by subsection (1) to the Proclamation referred to in that subsection shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by a Proclamation by the Governor-General under Division 4 of Part 15 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and to have been made in accordance with that Division.
(3) The Commonwealth reserve declared by the Proclamation described in subsection (1) (as amended by that subsection) includes all parts of the area described in the Proclamation (as amended), and the Proclamation (as amended) is valid, even if a part of the area is not an area described in subsection 344(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 .