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This instrument amends the Proclamation under Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 to ensure that Australia's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) boundary with Timor-Leste properly aligns with Australia's Proclamation in respect of the outer limits of the EEZ in the Timor Sea West. It also provides for formatting changes and amends previous minor errors in the Proclamation.
Administered by: Attorney-General's
Exempt from sunsetting by the Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015 s12 item 57A
Registered 21 Oct 2019
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR22-Oct-2019
Tabled Senate11-Nov-2019
Date of repeal 12 Feb 2020
Repealed by Division 1 of Part 3 of Chapter 3 of the Legislation Act 2003
Table of contents.

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Seas and Submerged Lands Amendment Proclamation (No. 2) 2019

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Proclamation.

Signed and Sealed with the

Great Seal of Australia on

17 October 2019

David Hurley

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

Christian Porter

Attorney‑General

 

 

 

  

  


Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Schedules...................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          2

Proclamation under Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973                                                          2

 


1  Name

                   This instrument is the Seas and Submerged Lands Amendment Proclamation (No. 2) 2019.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

22 October 2019

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

                   This instrument is made under section 10B of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.

4  Schedules

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

  

Proclamation under Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973

1  Paragraph (d)

Omit “paragraphs 2(a) to (z) and (zfa) to (zzf)”, substitute “subitems 2(1) and (3)”.

2  Paragraph (da)

Omit “paragraphs 2(za) to (zf)”, substitute “subitem 2(2)”.

3  Item 2 of the Schedule

Omit “The line:”.

4  Before paragraph 2(a) of the Schedule (after the subitem heading)

Insert:

             (1)  The line:

5  After paragraph 2(x) of the Schedule

Insert:

                   (xa)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 11°24´05.7062˝S, Longitude 126°18´18.0723˝E;

6  Paragraph 2(z) of the Schedule

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

                     (z)  then north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 11°20´05.0996˝S, Longitude 126°30´55.5968˝E and continuing from this point south‑easterly along the geodesic to the point identified in paragraph (2)(za).

7  Before paragraph 2(za) of the Schedule (after the subitem heading)

Insert:

             (2)  The line:

8  Paragraph 2(za) of the Schedule

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

                    (za)  commencing at the point of Latitude 11°20´02.90˝S, Longitude 126°31´58.40˝E;

9  Paragraph 2(zf) of the Schedule

Omit “E;”, substitute “E.”.

10  Before paragraph 2(zfa) of the Schedule (after the subitem heading)

Insert:

             (3)  The line:

11  Paragraph 2(zfa) of the Schedule

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

                  (zfa)  continuing, from the point identified in paragraph (2)(zf), north‑easterly along the geodesic to the point of Latitude 10°28´05.1256˝S, Longitude 128°13´55.6444˝E;

12  Paragraph 3(zi) of the Schedule

Omit “Longitude 156°37´00´E”, substitute “Longitude 156°37´00˝E”.

13  Paragraph 4(x) of the Schedule

After “Longitude 169°25´54˝”, insert “E”.