Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS ACT 1973 No. 161, 1973 - SECT 7

7. (1) The Governor-General may, from time to time, by Proclamation, declare,
not inconsistently with Section II of Part I of the Convention on the
Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, the limits of the whole or of any
part of the territorial sea.

(2) For the purposes of such a Proclamation, the Governor-General may, in
particular, determine either or both of the following:-

   (a)  the breadth of the territorial sea;

   (b)  the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea, or of any
        part of the territorial sea, is to be measured.