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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 345

Extent of Commonwealth reserve

  (1)   A Commonwealth reserve includes:

  (a)   land or seabed to the depth stated in the Proclamation declaring the Commonwealth reserve; and

  (b)   the waters and seabed under any sea in the area declared as a Commonwealth reserve.

  (2)   In this Act:

"land" includes subsoil of land and any body of water (whether flowing or not) except the sea.

"seabed" includes:

  (a)   the surface of a coral formation; and

  (b)   subsoil of seabed (including coral beneath the surface of a coral formation).


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