Western Australian Current Acts

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INJURY MANAGEMENT ACT 1981 - SCHEDULE 6

[s. 20]

        [Heading inserted: No. 36 of 2004 s. 13.]

1 .         Terms used

                In this Schedule —

        continental shelf and territorial sea have the same meanings as those terms have in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act;

        Joint Petroleum Development Area has the same meaning as in the Petroleum (Timor Sea Treaty) Act 2003 (Commonwealth);

        Petroleum Act means the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 of the Commonwealth;

        Seas and Submerged Lands Act means the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 of the Commonwealth.

        [Clause 1 inserted: No. 36 of 2004 s. 13; amended: No. 42 of 2010 s. 186(2) and (3).]

2 .         Adjacent areas defined

        (1)         The adjacent area for New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia or Tasmania is so much of the area described in Schedule 1 to the Petroleum Act in relation to that State as is within the outer limits of the continental shelf and includes the space above and below that area.

        (2)         The adjacent area for Queensland is —

            (a)         so much of the area described in Schedule 1 to the Petroleum Act in relation to Queensland as is within the outer limits of the continental shelf; and

            (b)         the Coral Sea area (within the meaning of section 7(2) of the Petroleum Act) other than the territorial sea within the Coral Sea area; and

            (c)         the areas within the outer limits of the territorial sea adjacent to certain islands of Queensland as determined by proclamation on 4 February 1983 under section 7 of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act ; and

            (d)         the space above and below the areas described in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).

        (3)         The adjacent area for Western Australia is so much of the area described in Schedule 1 to the Petroleum Act in relation to Western Australia as —

            (a)         is within the outer limits of the continental shelf; and

            (b)         is not within the Joint Petroleum Development Area,

                and includes the space above and below that area.

        (4)         The adjacent area for the Northern Territory is —

            (a)         so much of the area described in Schedule 1 to the Petroleum Act in relation to the Northern Territory as —

                  (i)         is within the outer limits of the continental shelf; and

                  (ii)         is not within the Joint Petroleum Development Area;

                and

            (b)         the offshore area for the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands (within the meaning of section 7(1) of the Petroleum Act) other than the territorial sea within that area; and

            (c)         the space above and below the areas described in paragraphs (a) and (b).

        (5)         However, the adjacent area for a State does not include any area inside the limits of any State or Territory.

        (6)         A reference in this clause to the area described in Schedule 1 to the Petroleum Act in relation to a State or Territory is a reference to the scheduled area for that State or Territory within the meaning given in that Schedule.

        [Clause 2 inserted: No. 36 of 2004 s. 13; amended: No. 42 of 2010 s. 186(4)-(8).]