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STATE COASTAL POLICY VALIDATION BILL 3 OF 2003

                                     TASMANIA


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                  STATE COASTAL POLICY VALIDATION
                             BILL 2003

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                                     CONTENTS
             1.    Short title
             2.    Commencement
             3.    Interpretation
             4.    Validation of State Coastal Policy 1996
             5.    References in State Coastal Policy 1996 to coastal zone
             6.    Administration of Act




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              STATE COASTAL POLICY VALIDATION
                         BILL 2003

               (Brought in by the Premier, the Honourable James
                               Alexander Bacon)

                                A BILL FOR

           An Act to validate the State Coastal Policy 1996 and
           actions taken under or in pursuance of that Policy



           Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Tasmania,
           by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative
           Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled,
           as follows:


           Short title

           1. This Act may be cited as the State Coastal Policy
           Validation Act 2003.



           Commencement

           2. This Act commences on the day on which this Act
           receives the Royal Assent.


           Interpretation

           3. In this Act, "State Coastal Policy 1996" means the
           policy of that name prepared and made under Part 2 of the
           State Policies and Projects Act 1993 and notified in the
           Gazette on 7 February 1996.



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       Validation of State Coastal Policy 1996

       4. (1) The State Coastal Policy 1996 is and is to be taken
       as always having been valid.

             (2) Any act or thing done or omitted or required to
       be done or omitted in pursuance of, in reliance on or
       arising from the State Coastal Policy 1996 before the
       commencement of this Act is taken to have been validly
       done or omitted or required to have been done or omitted.


       References in State Coastal Policy 1996 to coastal
       zone

       5. (1) A reference in the State Coastal Policy 1996 to the
       coastal zone is to be taken as a reference to State waters
       and to all land to a distance of one kilometre inland from
       the high-water mark.

            (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), "State
       waters" has the same meaning as in the Living Marine
       Resources Management Act 1995.



       Administration of Act

       6. Until provision is made in relation to this Act by order
       under section 4 of the Administrative Arrangements Act
       1990 ­

             (a)   the administration of this Act is assigned to
                   the Premier; and

             (b)   the department responsible to the Premier in
                   relation to the administration of this Act is the
                   Department of Premier and Cabinet.




4                       Government Printer, Tasmania

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