Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 80, 1980 - SECT 59

59. (1) Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting the heading "AREAS ADJACENT TO STATES AND TERRITORIES" and the
paragraph immediately under that heading;

(b) by omitting the heading "AREA ADJACENT TO THE STATE OF VICTORIA" and
substituting the heading "AREA THAT INCLUDES THE ADJACENT AREA IN RESPECT OF
VICTORIA";

(C) by omitting the heading "AREA ADJACENT TO THE STATE OF QUEENSLAND" and
substituting the heading "AREA THAT INCLUDES THE ADJACENT AREA IN RESPECT OF
QUEENSLAND";

(d) by omitting the heading "AREA ADJACENT TO THE STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA"
and substituting the heading "AREA THAT INCLUDES THE ADJACENT AREA IN RESPECT
OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA";

   (e)  by omitting the heading "AREA ADJACENT TO THE STATE OF WESTERN
        AUSTRALIA" and substituting the heading "AREA THAT INCLUDES THE
        ADJACENT AREA IN RESPECT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA";

   (f)  by omitting the heading "AREA ADJACENT TO THE STATE OF TASMANIA" and
        substituting the heading "AREA THAT INCLUDES THE ADJACENT AREA IN
        RESPECT OF TASMANIA";

   (g)  by omitting the heading "AREA ADJACENT TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF
        AUSTRALIA" and substituting the heading "AREA THAT INCLUDES THE
        ADJACENT AREA IN RESPECT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY"; and

   (h)  by omitting the heading "AREA ADJACENT TO THE TERRITORY OF ASHMORE AND
        CARTIER ISLANDS" and substituting the heading "AREA THAT INCLUDES THE
        ADJACENT AREA IN RESPECT OF THE TERRITORY OF ASHMORE AND CARTIER
        ISLANDS".
(2) Schedule 2 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting the heading "AREA
ADJACENT TO THE STATE OF NEW SOUTH WALES" and the description of an area under
that heading and substituting the following heading and description:



"AREA THAT INCLUDES THE ADJACENT AREA IN RESPECT OF
NEW SOUTH WALES

The area the boundary of which commences at a point that is the intersection
of the coastline at mean low water by the geodesic between the trigonometrical
station known as Point Danger near Point Danger and a point of Latitude 27
Degrees 58' South, Longitude 154 Degrees East and runs thence north- easterly
along that geodesic to the last-mentioned point, thence north-easterly along
the geodesic to a point of Latitude 27 Degrees 48' South, Longitude 154
Degrees 22' East, thence easterly along the geodesci to a point of Latitude 26
Degrees 59' 05" South, Longitude 165 Degrees 40' East, thence southerly along
the meridian of Longitude 165 Degrees 40' East to its intersection by the
parallel of Latitude 34 Degrees 03' 30" South, thence south-westerly along the
geodesic to a point of Latitude 34 Degrees 16' South, Longitude 165 Degrees
16' East, thence south-westerly along the geodesic to a point of Latitude 37
Degrees 21' 30" South, Longitude 164 Degrees 23' East, thence south-westerly
along the geodesic to a point of Latitude 37 Degrees 32' South, Longitude 164
Degrees 11' East, thence south-westerly along the geodesic to a point of
Latitude 37 Degrees 59' South, Longitude 163 Degrees 47' East, thence
south-westerly along the geodesic to a point of Latitude 38 Degrees 58' South,
Longitude 161 Degrees 15' 30" East, thence south-westerly along the geodesic
to a point of Latitude 39 Degrees 12' South, Longitude 160 Degrees East,
thence south-westerly along the geodesic to a point of Latitude 40 Degrees 40'
South, Longitude 158 Degrees 53' East, thence north-westerly along the
geodesic to a point of Latitude 37 Degrees 35' South, Longitude 150 Degrees
10' East, thence north-westerly along the geodesic to the intersection of the
coastline at mean low water by the boundary between the States of New South
Wales and Victoria, thence generally northerly along the coastline of
Australia at mean low water to the point of commencement.".