Western Australian Current Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 60K

60K .         Term used: adjacent area

        (1)         For the purposes of subsection (2), assume that the breadth of the territorial sea had never been determined or declared to be greater than 3 nautical miles, but had continued to be 3 nautical miles.

        (2)         In this Division —

        adjacent area means so much of the scheduled area as consists of —

            (a)         the territorial sea; and

            (b)         any area that is —

                  (i)         on the landward side of the territorial sea; and

                  (ii)         not within the limits of Western Australia.

        [Section 60K inserted: No. 42 of 2010 s. 113.]