Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS ACT 1973 No. 161, 1973 - SECT 10

10. It is by this Act declared and enacted that the sovereignty in respect of
the internal waters of Australia (that is to say, any waters of the sea on the
landward side of the baseline of the territorial sea) so far as they extend
from time to time, and in respect of the airspace over those waters and in
respect of the sea-bed and subsoil beneath those waters, is vested in and
exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth.