SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS ACT 1973 - SECT 14 Part II does not affect waters etc. within State limits

SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS ACT 1973 - SECT 14

    Nothing in this Part affects sovereignty or sovereign rights in respect of any waters of the sea that are waters of or within any bay, gulf, estuary, river, creek, inlet, port or harbour and:

  (a)   were, on 1st January, 1901 , within the limits of a State; and

  (b)   remain within the limits of the State;

or in respect of the airspace over, or in respect of the sea - bed or subsoil beneath, any such waters.