Offshore Minerals Act 1998
sec.17Sub-blocks
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sec.17 Sub-blocks
This is how a sub-block is constituted in coastal waters— assume that there is laid over the coastal waters a grid constituted by— lines running along meridians drawn through each degree of longitude and the minutes between those degrees; and lines running along parallels drawn through each degree of latitude and the minutes between those degrees; take a bounded space defined by the grid; the seabed and subsoil within the coastal waters that is under that space is a sub-block. The diagram in schedule 2 shows how a sub-block is constituted. Each sub-block is identified by giving the name of the plan in the 1:1000000 map series, an identifying number of the 5 minute block and a letter identifying the 1 minute sub-block. (sec.17-ssec.1) This is how a sub-block is constituted in coastal waters— assume that there is laid over the coastal waters a grid constituted by— lines running along meridians drawn through each degree of longitude and the minutes between those degrees; and lines running along parallels drawn through each degree of latitude and the minutes between those degrees; take a bounded space defined by the grid; the seabed and subsoil within the coastal waters that is under that space is a sub-block. (sec.17-ssec.2) The diagram in schedule 2 shows how a sub-block is constituted. (sec.17-ssec.3) Each sub-block is identified by giving the name of the plan in the 1:1000000 map series, an identifying number of the 5 minute block and a letter identifying the 1 minute sub-block.
- (a) assume that there is laid over the coastal waters a grid constituted by— (i) lines running along meridians drawn through each degree of longitude and the minutes between those degrees; and (ii) lines running along parallels drawn through each degree of latitude and the minutes between those degrees;
- (i) lines running along meridians drawn through each degree of longitude and the minutes between those degrees; and
- (ii) lines running along parallels drawn through each degree of latitude and the minutes between those degrees;
- (b) take a bounded space defined by the grid;
- (c) the seabed and subsoil within the coastal waters that is under that space is a sub-block.
- (i) lines running along meridians drawn through each degree of longitude and the minutes between those degrees; and
- (ii) lines running along parallels drawn through each degree of latitude and the minutes between those degrees;