NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT (NO. 2) 1987 NO. 16, 1987 

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT (NO. 2) 1987 NO. 16, 1987 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title etc.  
2. Commencement  
4. Conservation zones  
5. Existing interests etc. in parks and reserves  
6. Township at Jabiru  
7. No compensation payable  

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1987 No. 16, 1987 - LONG TITLE

      An Act to amend the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act
                  1975, and for related purposes

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1987 No. 16, 1987
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Short title etc.

                                               (Assented to 18 May 1987) 
  1. (1) This Act may be cited as the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation
Amendment Act (No. 2) 1987.
  (2) The National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975*1* is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.
(Minister's second reading speech made in-
    House of Representatives on 18 March 1987
    Senate on 28 April 1987)
1.  No. 12, 1975. For previous amendments, see No. 37, 1976; Nos. 29 and 36,
1978; Nos. 42 and 155, 1979; No. 70, 1980; No. 111, 1982; Nos. 10, 63 and 72,
1984; No. 94, 1985; and No. 76, 1986.

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1987 No. 16, 1987
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Commencement

  2. This Act shall come into operation immediately after the commencement of
the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Act 1987.

  3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subparagraph
        (a) (ii) of the definition of ''Region'' in subsection (1) '', Goodparla,
Gimbat''.

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AMENDMENT ACT (No. 2) 1987 No. 16, 1987
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Conservation zones

  4. Section 8A of the Principal Act is amended:
  (a)  by omitting from subsection (1) ''it is practicable'' and substituting
''a decision is made whether or not'';
  (b)  by omitting subsection (6) and substituting the following subsection:
     ''(6) For the purposes of making regulations in relation to conservation
zones, subsections 71 (2) (other than paragraph (t)) and 71 (3) apply, subject
to subsection (7) of this section, in relation to conservation zones as they
apply in relation to parks and reserves.'';
  (c)  by omitting paragraph (8) (a) and substituting the following
paragraph:
     ''(a) regulating or prohibiting operations for the recovery of
minerals;''; and
  (d)  by adding at the end the following subsections:
     ''(9) Subsection (1) does not limit the power to make regulations
conferred by paragraph (8) (a).
     ''(10) Where:
     (a)  regulations made under paragraph (8) (a) have effect in relation to
a
conservation zone; and
     (b)  an area is subsequently excised from the zone;
    then, except as otherwise provided in the regulations, the regulations
continue to apply in relation to the area, and further regulations may be made
under that paragraph in relation to the area, as if the area had not been
excised.
     ''(11) Regulations made under paragraph (8) (a) have effect
notwithstanding:
     (a)  any other regulations made under this Act; or
     (b)  any law of the Northern Territory, or any Act, by or under which
interests referred to in subparagraph 8B (1) (a) (i) have been created,
preserved or otherwise affected.
     ''(12) Regulations made under this section (other than regulations made
under paragraph (8) (a)) have no effect to the extent that they are
inconsistent with the terms and conditions of:
     (a)  a lease or licence granted under section 51 of the Lands
Acquisition
Act 1955; or
     (b)  a right (however described) to explore or prospect for minerals
granted under section 53 of that Act.
     ''(13) Any operation for the recovery of minerals on, in or beneath land
in a conservation zone in the exercise of an interest referred to in
subparagraph 8B (1) (a) (i) shall be deemed, for the purposes of procedures
contained in orders made under the Environment Protection (Impact of
Proposals) Act 1974, to be a proposed action within the meaning of those
procedures.''.

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Existing interests etc. in parks and reserves

  5. Section 8B of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (1)
        (a) ''(other than subsection 8A (13) or regulations made under paragraph 8A
(8) (a))'' after ''regulations''.

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Township at Jabiru

  6. Section 8D of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of
''Park'' from subsection (1) and substituting the following definition:
  '' 'Park' means Kakadu National Park;''.

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No compensation payable

  7. Notwithstanding any law of the Commonwealth or of the Northern Territory,
the Commonwealth is not liable to pay compensation to any person by reason of
the enactment of this Act.