Seas and Submerged Lands (Limits of Continental Shelf) Proclamation 2012 (Cth)

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