PROCLAMATION

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, and under subsection 7(8) of the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1975:

(a)                amend the proclamation made under subsection 7(2) of the Act and published in the Gazette on 17 September 1991 establishing the Australian National Botanic Gardens, by omitting the schedule to that proclamation and

substituting schedule 1; and

(b)               amend the proclamation made under subsection 7(2) of the Act and published in the Gazette on 4 March 1992 (as amended by the proclamation made under subsection 7(8) of the Act and published in the Gazette on 21 January 1998) establishing Booderee National Park, by omitting the schedule to that proclamation and substituting schedule 2.

Signed and sealed with the

Great Seal of Australia

on 25 May 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command

[signed]

Robert Hill

Minister for the Environment and Heritage

SCHEDULE l

DESCRIPTION OF AREA OF AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL BOTANIC

GARDENS

SCHEDULE 2

DESCRIPTION OF AREA OF BOODEREE NATIONAL PARK

Firstly: All that piece of land in Jervis Bay Territory containing an area of 2706 hectares more or less and known as Blocks 114 and 121 Jervis Bay Territory as shown on the plan lodged at the Office of the Registrar of Titles Canberra as Deposited Plan 9351.

Secondly: All that piece of land in Jervis Bay Territory containing an area of 2806 hectares more or less and known as Block 122 Jervis Bay Territory as shown on the plan lodged at the Office of the Registrar of Titles Canberra as Deposited Plan 9350.

Thirdly: All that piece of land in Jervis Bay Territory being Bowen Island containing an area of 52 hectares more or less and known as Block 6 Jervis Bay Territory as shown on the plan lodged at the Office of the Registrar of Titles Canberra as Deposited Plan 468.

Fourthly: All of that part of Jervis Bay in Jervis Bay Territory containing an area of 875 hectares more or less and commencing at the northernmost point of Bowen Island also known as Block 6 Jervis Bay Territory as shown on the plan lodged at the Office of the Registrar of Titles Canberra as Deposited Plan 468, then generally southerly and easterly by the western and southern boundaries respectively of Block 6 to the Jervis Bay Territory boundary, then generally south westerly along that boundary to a point on the high water mark of Jervis Bay at Governor Head being a point on the northern boundary of Block 122 Jervis Bay Territory as shown on the plan lodged at the Office of the Registrar of Titles Canberra as Deposited Plan 9350, then generally westerly south westerly and north westerly respectively along the northern boundary of Block 122 to its intersection with the eastern boundary of Block 117 Jervis Bay Territory as shown on the plan lodged at the Office of the Registrar of Titles Canberra as Deposited Plan 8990, then generally north westerly and westerly respectively by part of the northern boundary of Block 117 to its intersection with the New South Wales border, then generally easterly to the point of commencement.