Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COASTAL WATERS (NORTHERN TERRITORY POWERS) ACT 1980 No. 76 of 1980 - SECT 5

5. The legislative powers of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory
conferred by section 6 of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978
extend to the making of-

   (a)  all such laws of the Territory as could be made by virtue of those
        powers if the coastal waters of the Territory, as extending from time
        to time, were within the limits of the Territory, including laws
        applying in or in relation to the sea-bed and subsoil beneath, and the
        airspace above, the coastal waters of the Territory;

   (b)  laws of the Territory having effect in or in relation to waters within
        the adjacent area in respect of the Territory but beyond the outer
        limits of the coastal waters of the Territory, including laws applying
        in or in relation to the sea-bed and subsoil beneath, and the airspace
        above, the first-mentioned waters, being laws with respect to-

        (i)    subterranean mining from land within the limits of the
               Territory; or

        (ii)   ports, harbours and other shipping facilities, including
               installations, and dredging and other works, relating thereto,
               and other coastal works; and

   (c)  laws of the Territory with respect to fisheries in Australian waters
        beyond the outer limits of the coastal waters of the Territory, being
        laws applying to or in relation to those fisheries only to the extent
        to which those fisheries are, under an arrangement to which the
        Commonwealth and the Territory are parties, to be managed in
        accordance with the laws of the Territory.