Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828:section:9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00828
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 9
Character Range: 95749–97797

9               the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands            both of the following areas:
                                                                      (a) the area whose boundaries are the coastline at mean low water of the north atoll of that Territory (otherwise called North Keeling Island), and the outer limit of the superjacent waters of the continental shelf adjacent to the coast of that Island;
                                                                      (b) the area whose boundaries are the coastlines at mean low water of the remaining islands of that Territory, and the outer limit of the superjacent waters of the continental shelf adjacent to the coasts of those islands.

Note: The offshore area of a State or Territory corresponds to the adjacent area under the repealed Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967.
 (2) For the purposes of this section, the Coral Sea area is so much of the area to the east of the area described in paragraph (a) of item 2 of the table in subsection (1) as comprises waters of the sea that are within the outer limits of the continental shelf, other than any part of that area that is:
 (a) to the south of the parallel of Latitude 25°S; or
 (b) on the landward side of the coastline of any island at mean low water.
Note: For datum, see section 40.

Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands—land taken to be beneath the sea etc.
 (3) This Act has effect in relation to so much of the offshore area of the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands as consists of land as if that land were:
 (a) beneath the sea; and
 (b) part of the seabed and subsoil of that offshore area.

Areas of the continental shelf over which Australia does not exercise sovereign rights
 (4) For the purposes of:
 (a) an item in the table in subsection (1); and
 (b) subsection (2);
the continental shelf does not include any area of seabed and subsoil that, as a result of an agreement in force between Australia and a foreign country, is not an area over which Australia exercises sovereign rights.