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"Continental shelf"):

  Omit the definition, substitute:

" 'Continental shelf' has the same meaning as in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973;",

Designs Act 1906

Subsection 4(1) (definition of "Australian continental shelf"):

Omit "Continental Shelf Convention", substitute "Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973".

Subsection 4(1) (definition of "Continental Shelf Convention"):

  Omit the definition.

Fisheries Management Act 1991

Subsection 4(1) (paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of "Australian fishing zone"):

  Omit the paragraphs, substitute:

     "(a) the waters adjacent to Australia within the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone; and

     (b) the waters adjacent to each external territory within the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone;".

Subsection 4(1) (paragraph (d) of the definition of "Australian fishing zone"):

  Omit "waters; or", substitute "waters.".

SCHEDULE 1—continued

Subsection 4(1) (paragraph (e) of the definition of "Australian fishing zone"):

  Omit the paragraph.

Subsection 4(1):

  Insert:

" 'exclusive economic zone' means the exclusive economic zone, within the meaning of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973, adjacent to the coast of Australia or the coast of an external Territory;".

Migration Act 1958

Subsection 4(1) (definition of "continental shelf"):

  Omit the definition, substitute:

" 'continental shelf' has the same meaning as in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973;".

Minerals (Submerged Lands) Act 1981

Preamble (second paragraph):

  Omit the paragraph.

Subsection 3(1) (definition of "continental shelf"):

  Omit "Convention", substitute "Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973".

Subsection 3(1) (definition of "natural resources"):

  Omit the definition, substitute:

" 'natural resources' has the same meaning as in paragraph 4 of Article 77 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea done at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982;".

Subsection 3(1) (definition of "Convention"):

  Omit the definition.

Subsection 105(3):

  Omit the subsection, substitute:

"(3) The regulations may, to the extent to which this Act does not do so, provide for the exercise of Australia's rights under international law in relation to the exploration for, and the exploitation of, minerals as natural resources of the continental shelf.

Note: Subsection (1) provides that the regulations must not be inconsistent with this Act.".

SCHEDULE 1—continued

National Museum of Australia Act 1980

Paragraph 3(2)(b):

Omit "Convention on the Continental Shelf", substitute "the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973".

Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967

Preamble (second paragraph):

  Omit the paragraph.

Subsection 5(1) (definition of "the continental shelf"):

  Omit "Convention", substitute "Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973".

Subsection 5(1) (definition of "natural resources"):

  Omit the definition, substitute:

" 'natural resources' has the same meaning as in paragraph 4 of Article 77 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea done at Montego Bay on 10 December 1982;".

Subsection 5(1) (definition of "the Convention"):

  Omit the definition.

Subsection 157(3):

  Omit