• Summary

This legal document contains Australia’s Seas and Submerged Lands (Historic Bays) Proclamation of 10 March 2016.

In this Proclamation, Australia declares that there are four bays that are categorized as historic bay. They are Anxious Bay, Encounter Bay, Lacepede Bay, and Rivoli Bay. The specific coordinates constituting the straight lines (group of straight lines) that make the “sea-ward limits” (straight baseline enclosing the bays) of each bay are listed in Sections 7, 8, 9, and 10 respectively.

This Proclamation. is made under paragraph 8(a) of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973. This Proclamation of 2016 also repeals an earlier version of it promulgated in 2006.

The specific basepoints constituting the straight baselines are listed in Part 2 of the Schedule 2 of Australia Seas and Submerged Lands (Territorial Sea Baseline) Proclamation 10 March 2016

• Document: Australia Seas and Submerged Lands (Historic Bays) Proclamation of 10 March 2016
• Related Document:
  • Australia Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973, as amended by the Maritime Legislation Amendment Act 1994
  • Australia Seas and Submerged Lands (Territorial Sea Baseline) Proclamation 10 March 2016