Commonwealth Numbered Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM ACT 2006 (NO. 14, 2006) - SECT 23

             (1)  The regulations may declare that, for the purposes of describing, in a title or other instrument under this Act, the position on the surface of the Earth of a point, line or area:

                     (a)  a specified datum is the current datum ; and

                     (b)  that datum replaces the previous datum.

             (2)  The previous datum is:

                     (a)  if a datum is the first datum declared to be the current datum under subsection (1)—the Australian Geodetic Datum; or

                     (b)  in any other case—the datum that was the current datum immediately before the changeover time.

Note:          Under clause 4 of Schedule 6 to this Act, a declaration under subsection 150N(1) of the repealed Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 has effect as if it were a declaration under subsection (1) of this section.

             (3)  The changeover time is the time when the declaration takes effect.