Commonwealth Numbered Acts

KOONGARRA PROJECT AREA ACT 1981 NO. 104 OF 1981 - SECT 3

3. (1) The Proclamation by the Governor-General published in the Gazette on 5
April 1979 by which, pursuant to sub-section 7 (2) of the National Parks and 
Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 , the Governor-General declared the area
specified in the Schedule to the Proclamation to be a park and assigned to
that park the name ''Kakadu National Park'' 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
degrees 52' 20" with the meridian of east longitude 132 degrees 49' 41";
thence northeasterly by a straight line to the intersection of the parallel of
south latitude 12 degrees 51' 27" with the meridian of east longitude 132
degrees 51' 44"; thence southeasterly by a straight line to the intersection
of the parallel of south latitude 12 degrees 52' 54" with the meridian of east
longitude 132 degrees 52' 17"; thence southwesterly by a straight line to the
intersection of the parallel of south latitude 12 degrees 53' 58" with the
meridian of east longitude 132 degrees 50' 37"; thence northwesterly by a
straight line to the point of commencement;''.

(2) The amendment made by sub-section (1) to the Proclamation referred to in
that sub-section shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by a
Proclamation by the Governor-General under sub-section 7 (8) of the National 
Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975 and to have been made in accordance
with the requirements of section 7 of that Act.

(3) If, on the date of commencement of this section, any part of the area
declared to be a park by the Proclamation referred to in sub-section (1) as
amended by that sub-section is not an area as defined by sub-section 7 (1) of
the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975, that Proclamation, as
so amended, shall be deemed for all purposes to be a valid Proclamation under
section 7 of that Act to the intent that the area declared to be a park by the
Proclamation as so amended constitutes that part, notwithstanding that part of
that area is not an area as defined by sub-section 7 (1) of that Act.

(4) Any interest, other than an interest in respect of any minerals, held by
the Commonwealth in respect of any land (including any subsoil) that, by
reason of the amendment made by sub-section (1) to the Proclamation referred
to in that sub-section, is within the park referred to in that sub-section
(not being land that was within that park immediately before the commencement
of this section) is, by force of this sub-section, vested in the Director of
National Parks and Wildlife and, for the purposes of section 8 of the National
Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975, that interest shall be deemed to
have become vested in the Director of National Parks and Wildlife by reason of
a Proclamation under section 7 of that Act.