Biological Resources Act 2006

Note for subsection (1)

Part 8A of the Environment

Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 (Cth) applies to Commonwealth areas in the Territory.

Commonwealth areas is defined in section 525 of the Environment Protection and

Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) and, so far as is relevant to the Territory, includes the following:

(1) Each of the following, and any part of it, is a Commonwealth area:

(a) land owned by the

Commonwealth or a Commonwealth agency and airspace over the land;

(b) an area of land held under lease by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth agency and airspace over the land;

(d) the coastal sea of

Australia or an external Territory;

(e) the continental shelf, and the waters and airspace over the continental shelf;

(f) the waters of the exclusive economic zone, the seabed under those waters and the airspace above those waters;

(g) any other area of land, sea or seabed that is included in a Commonwealth reserve.

(3) Despite paragraphs (1)(d), (e) and (f), none of the following areas (or parts of them) are Commonwealth areas:

(b) the seabed vested in the Northern Territory under section 4 of the Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Title) Act 1980; and

(c) the subsoil under the seabed described in paragraph (b); and

(d) any water and airspace over seabed described in paragraph (b).

Assembly, in relation to biological resources of Territory origin.