Petroleum
(Ashmore and Cartier Islands)
No. 124 of 1967
An Act relating
to the Exploration for, and the Exploitation of, the Petroleum Resources of the
Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands.
[Assented to 22 November 1967]
BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent
Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Petroleum
(Ashmore and Cartier Islands) Act 1967.
Commencement.
2.This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by
Proclamation.
Application of Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act.
3.—(1.) The Petroleum
(Submerged Lands) Act 1967, and any Act with which that
Act is incorporated, have effect in relation to the Territory of Ashmore and
Cartier Islands as though the adjacent area in relation to that Territory
included the area, whether land or water, within the territorial limits of
that Territory and as though the land within those limits were beneath the sea
and were portion of the sea-bed and subsoil of that adjacent area.
(2.) The reference in section 88 of the Petroleum (Submerged Lands)
Act 1967