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Seas and Submerged Lands (Limits of Continental Shelf) Proclamation 20121

Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Proclamation under section 12 of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

                                   Signed and sealed with the
                                   Great Seal of Australia
                                   on 24 May 2012

                                   QUENTIN BRYCE
                                   Governor‑General
By Her Excellency's Command

NICOLA ROXON
Attorney-General

Contents

 1 Name of Proclamation 3
 2 Commencement 3
 3 Repeal 3
 4 Continental shelf—mainland Australia (including Tasmania, other than Macquarie Island), Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island              3
 5 Continental shelf—Macquarie Island 3
 6 Continental shelf—Heard Island and McDonald Islands 3
 7 Continental shelf—Cocos (Keeling) Islands 4
 8 Continental shelf—Christmas Island 4
 9 Operation of Schedules 1 to 5 4
 10 Relevant treaties 5
 11 Geographic coordinates 5

Schedule 1 Outer limit of parts of continental shelf adjacent to coasts of mainland Australia (including Tasmania, other than Macquarie Island), Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island              7
Part 1 References to certain points by geographic coordinates in terms of treaty datum or International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000 (if points not defined by treaty)              7
Part 2 References to certain points by geographic coordinates in terms of International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000              238

 Schedule 2 Outer limit of continental shelf adjacent to coast of Macquarie Island              240

Schedule 3 Outer limit of continental shelf adjacent to coasts of Heard Island and McDonald Islands              275
Part 1 References to certain points by geographic coordinates in terms of international treaties or International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000              275
Part 2 References to certain points by geographic coordinates in terms of International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2000              328

Schedule 4 Outer limit of continental shelf adjacent to coast of Cocos (Keeling) Islands              329

Schedule 5 Outer limit of parts of continental shelf adjacent to coast of Christmas Island              372

Schedule 6 Map 395

1 Name of Proclamation

  This Proclamation is the Seas and Submerged Lands (Limits of Continental Shelf) Proclamation 2012.

2 Commencement

  This Proclamation commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Repeal

  The Seas and Submerged Lands (Limits of Continental Shelf in the Tasman Sea and South Pacific Ocean) Proclamation 2005 (Federal Register of Legislative Instruments No. F2005L01990) is repealed.

4 Continental shelf—mainland Australia (including Tasmania, other than Macquarie Island), Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island

  The outer limit of certain parts of Australia's continental shelf adjacent to the coast of the mainland of Australia (including Tasmania, other than Macquarie Island) and adjacent to the coasts of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island is the line specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1.

Note 1   The line is not continuous and