CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS (COASTAL WATERS) ACT 1980 Reprinted as in force on 9
September 1994 Reprint No. 1
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TABLE OF PROVISIONS


Contents

     1.      Short title
     2.      Request for enactment of Commonwealth Act

     SCHEDULE -- AN ACT


     Endnotes
 
- LONG TITLE
An Act to request the Parliament of the Commonwealth to enact an Act to extend
the legislative powers of the States in and in relation to coastal waters
WHEREAS it has been agreed between the Government of the Commonwealth and the
Governments of the States of Australia that the legislative powers of the
States in and in relation to coastal waters should be extended by an Act of the
Parliament of the Commonwealth enacted at the request of the Parliaments of the
States in pursuance of section 51(xxxviii) of the Constitution of the
Commonwealth of Australia.
 
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Constitutional Powers (Coastal Waters) Act 1980.
 
2 Request for enactment of Commonwealth Act
The Parliament requests the enactment by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of
an Act in, or substantially in, the terms set out in the Schedule.
 
- SCHEDULE -- AN ACT
CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS (COASTAL WATERS) ACT 1980 - LONG TITLE
 
     (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.
CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS (COASTAL WATERS) ACT 1980 - LONG TITLE
 
 
CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS (COASTAL WATERS) ACT 1980 - NOTES $$T $$NNOTES Page Date
to which amendments incorporated 7 Key 7 Table of reprints 8 List of
legislation 8 Historical context 8
This is the reprint date mentioned in the Reprints Act 1992, section 5(c).
However, no amendments have commenced operation on or before that day. Future
amendments of the Constitutional Powers (Coastal Waters) Act 1980 may be made
in accordance with this reprint under the Reprints Act 1992, section 49.
Key      Explanation                  Key       Explanation
AIA    = Acts Interpretation Act 1954 (prev)  = previously
amd    = amended                      proc    = proclamation
amdt   = amendment                    prov    = provision
ch     = chapter                      pt      = part
def    = definition                   pubd    = published
div    = division                     R[X]    = Reprint No. [X]
exp    = expires/expired              RA      = Reprints Act 1992
gaz    = gazette                      reloc   = relocated
hdg    = heading                      renum   = renumbered
ins    = inserted                     rep     = repealed
lap    = lapsed                       (retro) = retrospectively
notfd  = notified                     rv      = revised edition
num    = numbered                     s       = section
o in c = order in council             sch     = schedule
om     = omitted                      sdiv    = subdivision
orig   = original                     SIA     = Statutory Instruments Act 1992
p      = page                         SIR     = Statutory Instruments
                                                Regulation 2002
para   = paragraph                    SL      = subordinate legislation
prec   = preceding                    sub     = substituted
pres   = present                      unnum   = unnumbered
Reprint No. Amendments to Effective     Reprint date
1           none          24 March 1980 9 September 1994
This Act is part of a series of Acts giving effect to an offshore
constitutional settlement between the States and the Commonwealth. All States
passed Acts asking the Commonwealth Parliament to legislate in, or
substantially in, the terms set out in the Schedule to this Act. The
Commonwealth Parliament responded by passing the Coastal Waters (State Powers)
Act 1980.
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