Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MINERALS (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1981 No. 81, 1981 - SECT 4

4. (1) For the purposes of this Act, the adjacent area in respect of a State
or Territory is the area that is, for the time being, the adjacent area in
respect of that State or Territory for the purposes of the Petroleum
(Submerged Lands) Act 1967.

(2) This Act, and the associated Acts, have effect in relation to so much of
the adjacent area in respect of the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands
as consists of land as though that land were beneath the sea and were a
portion of the sea-bed and subsoil of that adjacent area.