6Meaning of “marine estate”

6 Meaning of “marine estate”

6 Meaning of “marine estate”

In this Act, the marine estate means the following—

(a) the coastal waters of the State within the meaning of Part 10 of the Interpretation Act 1987,

(b) estuaries (being any part of a river whose level is periodically or intermittently affected by coastal tides) up to the highest astronomical tide,

(c) lakes, lagoons and other partially enclosed bodies of water that are permanently, periodically or intermittently open to the sea,

(d) coastal wetlands (including saltmarsh, mangroves and seagrass),

(e) lands immediately adjacent to, or in the immediate proximity of, the coastal waters of the State that are subject to oceanic processes (including beaches, dunes, headlands and rock platforms),

(f) any other place or thing declared by the regulations to be the marine estate,

but does not include any place or thing declared by the regulations not to be the marine estate.