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WILDERNESS ACT 1987 - SECT 8 Declaration of wilderness areas

WILDERNESS ACT 1987 - SECT 8

Declaration of wilderness areas

8 Declaration of wilderness areas

(1) The Minister shall, by notification published in the Gazette, declare an area of land (which may, but need not, be restricted to land that is wholly or predominantly subterranean land):
(a) subject to a wilderness protection agreement, or
(b) subject to a conservation agreement referred to in section 16,
to be a wilderness area.
(1A) The Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, declare any lands reserved or dedicated under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 to be a wilderness area.
(1B) The Minister may not declare lands referred to in subsection (1A) to be a wilderness area unless the Director-General has identified those lands as wilderness in accordance with this Act.
(2) A notification under subsection (1) shall be published not later than 28 days after the agreement takes effect or at such later time as may be provided by the agreement.
(3) A declaration relating to an area of land subject to a wilderness protection agreement may be varied by a further notification published in the Gazette but shall not be revoked except by an Act of Parliament.
(4) A declaration relating to a conservation area may be varied or revoked by a further notification published in the Gazette and a copy of any notification revoking such a declaration shall be laid before each House of Parliament within the prescribed time after its publication.
(4A) A declaration under subsection (1A) may be varied by a further notification by the Minister published in the Gazette but must not be revoked except by an Act of Parliament.
(5) A declaration under this section does not, except as otherwise provided by any agreement under this Act, affect any existing interest in the area of land subject to the declaration.
(6) In this section:


"interest" means any authority, authorisation, permit, lease, licence or occupancy, whether or not arising under an Act.