Commonwealth Numbered Acts

OFFSHORE MINERALS ACT 1994 No. 28, 1994 - SECT 14

14.(1) The external territory offshore area for the Territory of Ashmore and
Cartier Islands is the area that is the adjacent area for that Territory for
the purposes of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967.
Note 1: The "adjacent area" for the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands
for the purposes of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 is worked out by
taking the area off the coast of the territory that is described in Schedule 2
to that Act and then excluding any areas that are beyond the Continental
Shelf. Note 2: Under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967, any land that
is in the adjacent area for the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands is
treated as submerged land and as part of the seabed and subsoil of that
adjacent area.

(2) The external territory offshore area for Norfolk Island, the Territory of
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling)
Islands is the area which starts at the coastline of the Islands at mean low
water and ends at the outer limit of the superjacent waters of the Continental
Shelf adjacent to the coast of the islands. Note: Under the Petroleum
(Submerged Lands) Act 1967, the adjacent area for the Coral Sea Islands
Territory is treated as being part of the adjacent area for Queensland.
Therefore, in this Act, the Coral Sea offshore area is part of the
Commonwealth-Queensland offshore area.