Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS ACT 1973

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Preamble

   PART I--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title [see Note 1]  
   2.      Commencement [see Note 1]  
   3.      Interpretation  
   4.      Extension to Territories  

   PART II--SOVEREIGNTY, SOVEREIGN RIGHTS AND RIGHTS OF CONTROL

           Division 1--The territorial sea

   5.      Interpretation  
   6.      Sovereignty in respect of territorial sea  
   7.      Limits of territorial sea [see Note 2]  
   8.      Declaration of historic bays and historic waters  
   9.      Charts of limits of territorial sea  
   10.     Sovereignty in respect of internal waters  

           Division 1A--The exclusive economic zone

   10A.    Sovereign rights in respect of exclusive economic zone  
   10B.    Limits of exclusive economic zone  
   10C.    Charts of limits of exclusive economic zone  

           Division 2--The continental shelf

   11.     Sovereign rights in respect of continental shelf  
   12.     Limits of continental shelf  
   13.     Charts of limits of continental shelf  

           Division 2A--The contiguous zone

   13A.    Rights of control in respect of contiguous zone  
   13B.    Limits of contiguous zone  
   13C.    Charts of limits of contiguous zone  

           Division 3--Savings

   14.     Part II does not affect waters etc. within State limits  
   15.     Certain property not vested in Commonwealth  
   16.     Saving of other laws  
           SCHEDULE Parts II, V and VI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea