Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS ACT 1973 - SECT 7

             (1)  The Governor‑General may, from time to time, by Proclamation, declare, not inconsistently with Section 2 of Part II of the Convention, the limits of the whole or of any part of the territorial sea.

             (2)  For the purposes of such a Proclamation, the Governor‑General may, in particular, determine either or both of the following:

                     (a)  the breadth of the territorial sea;

                     (b)  the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea, or of any part of the territorial sea, is to be measured.