Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated ActsIn this Division, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Commonwealth Act" means, as the context requires:
(a) the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 of the Commonwealth, as amended from time to time;
(b) if the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 of the Commonwealth is repealed and re-enacted (with or without modification) – the Act of the Commonwealth that re-enacts it, as amended from time to time;
(c) the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Registration Fees Act 1967 of the Commonwealth, as amended from time to time;
(d) if the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Registration Fees Act 1967 of the Commonwealth is repealed and re-enacted (with or without modification) – the Act of the Commonwealth that re-enacts it, as amended from time to time;
(e) the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Fees Act 1994 of the Commonwealth, as amended from time to time; or
(f) if the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Fees Act 1994 of the Commonwealth is repealed and re-enacted (with or without modification) – the Act of the Commonwealth that re-enacts it, as amended from time to time.
"Commonwealth adjacent area" means:
(a) if the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 of the Commonwealth is in force – the adjacent area in respect of the Territory determined in accordance with section 5A of that Act; or
(b) if the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 of the Commonwealth is repealed and re-enacted (with or without modification) – the area that, under the Act of the Commonwealth that re-enacts the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 of the Commonwealth, corresponds to the area which, immediately before the repeal of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 of the Commonwealth, was the adjacent area in respect of the Territory determined in accordance with section 5A of that Act.
"Eastern Greater Sunrise area" means the part of the Commonwealth adjacent area that is described in Schedule 8 to the Commonwealth Act under the heading that refers to the Eastern Greater Sunrise area.
"Principal Northern Territory PSL area" means the part of the Commonwealth adjacent area that is comprised of all of that adjacent area apart from the Eastern Greater Sunrise area.