Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (SUBMERGED LANDS) ACT 1982 - SECT 5

5 .         Further provisions as to adjacent area

        (1)         For the purposes of subsection (2A), assume that the breadth of the territorial sea had never been determined or declared to be greater than 3 nautical miles, but had continued to be 3 nautical miles.

        (2A)         In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears —

        adjacent area means —

            (a)         so much of the scheduled area as consists of the territorial sea; and

            (b)         subject to subsection (2), any area that —

                  (i)         is within the scheduled area; and

                  (ii)         is on the landward side of the territorial sea and not within the limits of Western Australia; and

                  (iii)         was, immediately before 14 February 1983, the subject of an exploration permit for petroleum subsisting under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 (Commonwealth).

        (2)         Upon an area described in paragraph (b) of the definition of adjacent area in subsection (2A) becoming an area which is —

            (a)         not the subject of a permit; and

            (aa)         not the subject of a lease; and

            (b)         not the subject of a licence; and

            (c)         not the subject of an application for a lease or licence,

                the area ceases to be part of the adjacent area.

        [Section 5 amended by No. 12 of 1990 s. 161; No. 42 of 2010 s. 66.]