Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) REGULATIONS 1990 - REG 10

10 .         Application of GDA to certain instruments

        (1)         A reference (a GDA reference ) in an instrument under the Act or these regulations that comes into force on or after the commencement day to the position on the surface of the Earth of a graticular section or block is to be made by reference to —

            (a)         the GDA; and

            (b)         coordinates of latitude and longitude calculated to 3 decimal places of a second.

        (2)         An instrument under the Act or these regulations referred to in subregulation (1) that contains a GDA reference is to be endorsed with a statement to the effect that the GDA applied to the calculation of the coordinates of latitude and longitude relevant to the GDA reference, but the omission of such a statement does not affect the validity of the instrument.

        (3)         Despite section 17 of the Act, for the purposes of subregulation (1) —

            (a)         the meridians of longitude defining the eastern and western boundaries of a graticular section; and

            (b)         the parallels of latitude defining the northern and southern boundaries of a graticular section,

                may be taken to be at a distance from each other that is other than 5 minutes.

        (4)         In subregulation (1) —

        commencement day means the day on which section 8 of the Acts Amendment (Australian Datum) Act 2000 comes into operation  ³ .

        [Regulation 10 inserted in Gazette 15 December 2000 pp. 7217-18.]