Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE MINERALS ACT 1994 - SECT 17

             (1)  This is how a block is constituted in an offshore area:

                     (a)  assume that there is laid over the offshore area a grid constituted by:

                              (i)  lines running along meridians drawn through each degree of longitude and the minutes between those degrees; and

                             (ii)  lines running along parallels drawn through each degree of latitude and the minutes between those degrees;

                     (b)  take a bounded space defined by the grid;

                     (c)  the seabed and subsoil within the offshore area that is under that space is a block in the offshore area.

             (2)  The following diagram shows how a block is constituted:

Note:          Each block is identified by giving the name of the plan in the 1:1,000,000 map series, an identifying number of the 5 minute primary block and a letter identifying the 1 minute block. The block in the diagram is 1621(a) on the Darwin sheet.