New South Wales Consolidated Acts

MARINE PARKS ACT 1997 - SECT 9

9 Variation of area of marine park

(1) The Governor may from time to time, by proclamation, vary the area of a marine park, but may only vary a marine park to remove an area if the relevant Ministers certify in writing that the area is no longer required to be part of the marine park for the purpose of attaining the objects of this Act.

(2) Sections 40 (Notice of statutory rules to be tabled) and 41 (Disallowance of statutory rules) of the Interpretation Act 1987 apply to a proclamation under this section in the same way as those sections apply to a statutory rule.

(3) The provisions of section 6 (2)-(5) apply to a variation of an area under this section that adds an area to a marine park in the same way as those provisions apply to the declaration of an area as a marine park.