Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation Dated 18 July 1879

Queensland Queensland Coast Islands Act 1879 QUEENSLAND COAST ISLANDS PROCLAMATION DATED 18 JULY 1879 Reprinted as in force on 11 April 1996 (proclamation not amended up to this date) Reprint No. 1 This reprint is prepared by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel Warning—This reprint is not an authorised copy Information about this reprint This proclamation is reprinted as at 11 April 1996. Minor editorial changes allowed under the provisions of the Reprints Act 1992 mentioned in the following list have been made to— • use standard punctuation consistent with current drafting practice (s 27) • use expressions consistent with current drafting practice (s 29) • use aspects of format and printing style consistent with current drafting practice (s 35). Also see endnotes for information about when provisions commenced. Queensland QUEENSLAND COAST ISLANDS PROCLAMATION DATED 18 JULY 1879 TABLE OF PROVISIONS Section Page SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 ENDNOTES 1 Index to endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2 Date to which amendments incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 List of legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3 Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation dated 18 July 1879 QUEENSLAND COAST ISLANDS PROCLAMATION DATED 18 JULY 1879 [reprinted as in force on 11 April 1996] By His Excellency Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the colony of Queensland and its dependencies Whereas, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date 10 October, in the 42nd year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Her said Majesty did authorise the Governor for the time being of the Colony of Queensland, by proclamation under his hand and the Public Seal of the colony, to declare that from and after a day to be therein mentioned, certain islands, which are described in the schedule hereto, should be annexed to and form part of the said colony. And in the said letters patent it was provided that the said Governor is not to issue such proclamation as aforesaid until the Legislature of the said colony shall have passed a law providing that the said islands shall, on the day aforesaid, become part of the said colony, and subject to the laws in force therein; and in the said letters patent it was also provided that the application of the said laws to the said islands might be modified either by such proclamation as aforesaid, or by any law or laws to be from time to time passed by the Legislature of the said colony for the government of the said islands so annexed. And whereas by an Act passed by the Legislature of the said Colony of Queensland in the 43rd year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled ‘An Act to provide that certain islands in Torres Straits and lying between the continent of Australia and the island of New Guinea shall become part of the Colony of Queensland and subject to the laws in force therein’, it is enacted that from and after such a day as His Excellency the Governor of Queensland shall by proclamation under his hand and the 4 Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation dated 18 July 1879 Public Seal of the colony, as is authorised by the said letters patent, mention and appoint for that purpose, the islands described in the schedule hereto shall be annexed to and become part of the Colony of Queensland. Now, therefore, I, the Governor aforesaid, in pursuance of the power so vested in me, and by and with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby notify and proclaim that from and after 1 August 1879, the islands described in the schedule hereto shall be annexed to and become part of the Colony of Queensland, and shall be and become subject to the laws in force therein. 5 Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation dated 18 July 1879 ¡SCHEDULE Certain islands in Torres Straits and lying between the continent of Australia and island of New Guinea, that is to say, all islands included within a line drawn from Sandy Cape northward to the south-eastern limit of Great Barrier Reefs; thence following the line of the Great Barrier Reefs to their north-eastern extremity near the latitude of nine and a half degrees south; thence in a north-westerly direction embracing East Anchor and Bramble Cays; thence from Bramble Cays in a line west by south (south seventy-nine degrees west) true, embracing Warrior Reef, Saibai, and Tuan Islands; thence diverging in a north-westerly direction so as to embrace the group known as the Talbot Islands; thence to and embracing the Deliverance Islands, and onwards in a west-by-south direction (true) to the meridian of 138° of east longitude. Given under my hand and the great seal of the colony, at Government House, Brisbane, this 18 July 1879, and in the 43rd year of Her Majesty’s reign, By Command, A. H. PALMER. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! 6 Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation dated 18 July 1879 †ENDNOTES ´1 Index to endnotes Page 2 Dated to which amendments incorporated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 List of legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ´2 Date to which amendments incorporated This is the reprint date mentioned in the Reprints Act 1992, section 5(c). However, no amendments have commenced operation on or before that day. Future amendments of the Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation dated 18 July 1879 may be made in accordance with this reprint under the Reprints Act 1992, section 49. ´3 Key Key to abbreviations in list of legislation and annotations AIA = Acts Interpretation Act 1954 (prev) = previously amd = amended proc = proclamation ch = chapter prov = provision def = definition pt = part div = division pubd = published exp = expires/expired R[X] = Reprint No.[X] gaz = gazette RA = Reprints Act 1992 hdg = heading reloc = relocated ins = inserted renum = renumbered lap = lapsed rep = repealed notfd = notified s = section om = omitted sch = schedule o in c = order in council sdiv = subdivision p = page SIA = Statutory Instruments Act 1992 para = paragraph SL = subordinate legislation prec = preceding sub = substituted pres = present unnum = unnumbered prev = previous 7 Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation dated 18 July 1879 ´4 List of legislation Queensland Coast Islands Proclamation dated 18 July 1879 proclamation signed 18 July 1879 pubd gaz 21 July 1879 p 143  State of Queensland 1996