Declaration of protected zones
7 Declaration of protected zones
The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare an area (not exceeding 100 hectares) consisting of water or partly of water and partly of land within which a historic shipwreck or historic relic is, situated to be a protected zone.
If a notice declaring an area to be a protected zone is in force under subsection (1), the protected zone will be taken to include the airspace above that area and, to the extent to which that area consists of the surface of water, to include the waters beneath that area and the surface and subsoil of the land submerged by those waters.
Subject to subsection (4), a notice under this section ceases to have force if the protected zone declared by the notice relates to the remains of a ship, or an article associated with a ship, that is the subject of a notice under section 5 or
6 that has been revoked or has otherwise ceased to be in force.
A notice under this section remains in force despite subsection (3) if—
the notice relates to an area within which the remains of a ship are situated and the remains are a historic shipwreck by virtue of section 4A(1)(a)(i); or
the notice relates to an area within which an article associated with a ship is situated and the article is a historic relic by virtue of section 4A(2)(a)(i).
Nothing in subsection (3) prevents the publication in the
Gazette of a further notice under this section in relation to the remains of a ship, or in relation to an article associated with a ship, if a further notice is published in the Gazette under section 5 or
6 in relation to the remains or in relation to the article.
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