Coastal Waters (State Title) Act 1980

In relation to a part of the seabed that was, immediately before the commencement of this Act, occupied by, or by structures, installations or other property of, the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth, subsections 4(1) and (2) do not take effect upon the commencement of this Act but take effect upon such date, if any, as is fixed by the Minister, by notice in the Gazette, as the date on which those subsections are to take effect in respect of that part of the seabed, and so take effect as if references in those subsections to the date of commencement of this Act were references to the date so fixed.

Where a date is fixed under subsection (1) in respect of a part of the seabed, paragraph 4(2)(a) does not operate to preserve any right or title of the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth that may have subsisted in respect of that part of the seabed immediately before that date.