Statutory Rules

1979 No. 124

REGULATION UNDER THE HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS ACT
19761

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976.

 Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

R. J. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for Home Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS
REGULATIONS2

 Prohibition of certain activities in protected zone

  Regulation 4 of the Historic Shipwrecks Regulations is amended–

 (a) by omitting “Penalty: $1,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.”; and

 (b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:

 “(2) A person who, without reasonable excuse, contravenes this regulation is guilty of an offence and is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 July 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1978 No. 93.