Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00223:section:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00223
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 15288–17956

5  Disposal of Crown lands
  Subject to the Aboriginal Land and Waters (Jervis Bay Territory) Act 1986, Crown lands in the territory shall not be sold or disposed of for any estate of freehold.

The Schedule—Surrender to the Commonwealth Of Australia by the State of New South Wales of land at Jervis Bay.

  AGREEMENT between the Commonwealth of Australia (hereinafter called the Commonwealth) of the one part and the State of New South Wales (hereinafter called the State) of the other part:

  WITNESSETH THAT, subject as hereinafter mentioned to the approval of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth and of the State, it is hereby agreed as follows—

1. The State shall surrender to the Commonwealth, and the Commonwealth shall accept, the territory (hereinafter called the territory), now being part of the State, described hereunder, namely—

All that piece and parcel of land and water situate at Jervis Bay in the Parish of Bherwerre, County of St. Vincent, State of New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia, area about 18,000 acres, commencing at a point on the high water mark on the left bank of Sussex Inlet at its intersection with the western boundary of portion 12 of 40 acres and bounded thence westerly and north‑westerly by that high water mark to the high water mark of St. George's Basin, thence in a general easterly and north‑easterly direction by that high water mark to its intersection with the production westerly of the southern boundary of portion 18; thence easterly by a straight line formed by the western production of the southern boundary of portion 18, the boundary itself, and its production easterly to the high water mark of Jervis Bay; thence by a line across the southern part of Jervis Bay bearing north‑easterly to a point in the high water mark of Jervis Bay at the northernmost extremity of Bowen Island; thence by the high water mark of Jervis Bay and of the South Pacific Ocean along the eastern boundary of Bowen Island to the southernmost point thereof; thence by a line bearing south‑westerly across the passage between Bowen Island and Governor Head to the high water mark of the South Pacific Ocean on the foreshore of the mainland, at the northernmost point of Governor Head; and thence by that high water mark in a general southerly and south‑westerly direction to St. George's Head; thence in a general northerly, westerly and south‑westerly direction by the high water mark of Wreck Bay to the high water mark on the left bank of Sussex Inlet before mentioned; and thence in a general northerly direction by that high water mark to the commencing point.

2. This Agreement shall not in any way be binding unless