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PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 80, 1980 - SECT 7

7. After section 5 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Adjacent areas

"5A. (1) For the purposes of this Act, but subject to sub-section (2), the
adjacent area in respect of a State or the Northern Territory is so much of
the area described in Schedule 2 under the heading that refers to that State
or Territory as comprises waters of the sea that-

   (a)  are not within the outer limits of the territorial sea of Australia
        (including the territorial sea adjacent to any island forming part of
        Australia); and

   (b)  are within the outer limits of the continental shelf.



"(2) If at any time the breadth of the territorial sea of Australia is
determined or declared to be greater than 3 nautical miles, sub-section (1)
continues to have effect as if the breadth of the territorial sea of Australia
had continued to be 3 nautical miles.



"(3) For the purposes of this Act, the adjacent area in respect of the
Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands is so much of the area described in
Schedule 2 under the heading that refers to that Territory as comprises land
and water within the outer limits of the continental shelf.



"(4) This Act, and any Act with which this Act is incorporated, have effect in
relation to so much of the adjacent area in respect of the Territory of
Ashmore and Cartier Islands as consists of land as though that land were
beneath the sea and were a portion of the sea-bed and subsoil of that adjacent
area.



"(5) For the purposes of this Act, the adjacent area in respect of Norfolk
Island is the area the boundaries of which are-

   (a)  the coastline at mean low water of Norfolk Island; and

   (b)  the outer limit of the superjacent waters of the continental shelf
        adjacent to the coast of Norfolk Island.



"(6) For the purposes of this Act, the adjacent area in respect of the
Territory of Heard and McDonald Islands is the area the boundaries of which
are-

   (a)  the coast lines at mean low water of the islands comprising that
        Territory; and

   (b)  the outer limit of the superjacent waters of the continental shelf
        adjacent to the coasts of those islands.". 


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