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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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227 Coastal waters
(1) Section 15B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 does not apply in relation to this Division.
(2) The coastal waters of a State or the Northern Territory are:
(a) the part or parts of the territorial sea that are:
(i) within 3 nautical miles of the baseline of the territorial sea; and
(ii) adjacent to that State or Territory; and
(b) any marine or tidal waters that are inside that baseline and are adjacent to that State or Territory but are not within the limits of a State or that Territory.
Note: Generally the baseline is the lowest astronomical tide along the coast but it also includes lines enclosing bays and indentations that are not bays and straight baselines that depart from the coast.
(3) Any part of the territorial sea that is adjacent to the Jervis Bay Territory is, for the purposes of subsection (2), taken to be adjacent to New South Wales.