PROCLAMATION

Commonwealth of

Australia

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia

WHEREAS it is provided by section 2 of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 that that Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent but shall not apply in relation to waters (including waters above the continental shelf) adjacent to the coast of a State until a Proclamation has been made declaring that the Act applies in relation to waters adjacent to the coast of that State:

   NOW THEREFORE I, Sir Zelman Cowen, the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby declare that the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 applies in relation to waters adjacent to the coast of the State of South Australia.

(L.S.) GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of Australia on 11 June 1980.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. J. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for Home Affairs

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!