Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00547:section:5:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00547
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 17655–18690

reference to which the territorial limits of that Territory are defined for the purposes of international law and as its outer limit the outer limits of the continental shelf.
 (7) For the purposes of this Act, the adjacent area in respect of an external Territory (other than the Australian Antarctic Territory, Coral Sea Islands Territory and the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands) is the area comprising waters of the sea that are either:
 (a) adjacent to the coast of that Territory and within the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone; or
 (b) adjacent to the coast of that Territory and within the outer limits of the continental shelf.
 (8) For the purposes of subsections (3), (5), (6) and (7), the continental shelf does not include any area of seabed and subsoil that, under an agreement in force between Australia and another country, is not an area over which Australia exercises sovereign rights.
 (9) For the purposes of this Act, the space above or below an adjacent area shall be deemed to be in that area.