Queensland Consolidated Acts

MINERAL RESOURCES ACT 1989 - SECT 3

3 Application of Act to Commonwealth land and coastal waters of the State

(1) To the extent that the Parliament of the Commonwealth shall have from time to time vested in the Crown in right of Queensland jurisdiction to make such laws with respect thereto, this Act applies in respect of the sea bed and subsoil beneath the internal waters of Australia and beneath the baseline waters of the State and to waters above that sea bed as if that sea bed and subsoil were land within Queensland.

(2) This Act applies in respect of land of or vested in the Commonwealth to the extent that from time to time the Parliament of the Commonwealth shall determine.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not be construed to authorise prospecting, exploration or mining of the sea bed and subsoil that by a law of the Commonwealth is excluded from the application of this Act (whether by reference to this Act or to the subject matter of this Act) to the extent of that exclusion.

(4) In this section—

"baseline waters" means the waters between the mean low water springs level and the inside of the baseline under the Offshore Minerals Act 1998 , section 16 .