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Maritime Legislation Amendment
Act 1994

No. 20 of 1994

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Section

 1. Short title
 2. Commencement

PART 2—AMENDMENT OF THE SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS
ACT 1973

 3. Principal Act
 4. Long title
 5. Preamble
 6. Interpretation
 7. Extension to Territories
 8. Heading to Part II
 9. Limits of territorial sea
 10. Insertion of new Division:

Division 1A—The Exclusive Economic Zone

       10A. Sovereign rights in respect of exclusive economic zone
       10B. Limits of exclusive economic zone
       10C. Charts of limits of exclusive economic zone
 11. Limits of continental shelf

TABLE OF PROVISIONS—continued

Section

 12. Insertion of new Division:

Division 2A—The Contiguous Zone

       13A. Rights of control in respect of contiguous zone
       13B. Limits of contiguous zone
       13C. Charts of limits of contiguous zone
 13. Repeal of Schedules 1 and 2 and substitution of new Schedule
 14. Transitional: Proclamations to remain in force

PART 3—AMENDMENT OF OTHER LEGISLATION

 15. Amendment of Acts

SCHEDULE 1—AMENDMENTS OF ACTS

Admiralty Act 1988

Customs Act 1901

Designs Act 1906

Fisheries Management Act 1991

Migration Act 1958

Minerals (Submerged Lands) Act 1981

National Museum of Australia Act 1980

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967

Pipeline Authority Act 1973

Quarantine Act 1908

Sea Installations Act 1987

Whale Protection Act 1980

SCHEDULE 2

SCHEDULE TO BE INSERTED IN THE SEAS AND SUBMERGED LANDS
ACT 1973

Maritime Legislation Amendment
Act 1994

No. 20 of 1994

An Act to amend the law relating to Australia's maritime
zones under international law, and for related purposes

[Assented to 15 February 1994]

  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Maritime Legislation Amendment Act 1994.

Commencement

2.(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into operation on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.

(2) If this Act does not commence under subsection (1) within the period of 6 months beginning on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent, it commences on the first day after the end of that period.

PART 2—AMENDMENT OF THE SEAS AND SUBMERGED
LANDS ACT 1973

Principal Act

3. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 19731.

Long title

4. The title of the Principal Act is amended by omitting all the words after "Continental Shelf" and substituting "and the Exclusive Economic Zone and to certain rights of control in respect of the Contiguous Zone".

Preamble

  5. The Preamble to the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting the second paragraph and substituting the following paragraph:

     "AND WHEREAS Australia as a coastal state has:

       (a) sovereign rights in respect of the waters, the sea-bed and the subsoil that constitute the exclusive economic zone of Australia for the purposes of:

        (i)