This Act provides for the creation of marine parks in tidal waters and on tidal lands, it consists of 30 sections. It regulates the zoning of parks, their creation and their administration. The Act provides also for the protection of marine products, which include “oyster, pearl oyster, trochus, green snail, coral, coral limestone, shell-grit and star sand and a) all forms of indigenous plants and animals; and b) aboriginal remains, artefacts or handicraft or traces thereof; and c) wrecks, relics or traces hereof; and d) all other material of which tidal land in a marine park consists.” (sect. 9).
Australia · 1982-04-20