Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PAPUA NEW GUINEA ACT 1975 No. 97, 1975 - SECT 4

4. Section 52A of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of ''off-shore area''; and

   (b)  by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:-

''(1A) A reference in this section to the off-shore area is a reference to the
sea-bed and subsoil beneath-

   (a)  the waters of-

        (i)    the territorial sea appertaining to the Territory of Papua; and

        (ii)   the territorial sea appertaining to the Territory of New
               Guinea; and

   (b)  the superjacent waters of the continental shelf of each of those
        Territories,

but, for the purposes of this sub-section, those waters shall not be taken to
include waters to which, immediately before the commencement of this
sub-section, the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967-1974 applied.''.
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