Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COASTAL WATERS (STATE POWERS) ACT 1980 - SECT 7

                   Nothing in this Act shall be taken to:

                     (a)  extend the limits of any State;

                     (b)  derogate from any power existing, apart from this Act, to make laws of a State having extra‑territorial effect; or

                     (c)  give any force or effect to a provision of a law of a State to the extent of any inconsistency with a law of the Commonwealth or with the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia or the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act.