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Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967
150NCurrent datum, previous datum and changeover time
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#### 150N Current datum, previous datum and changeover time
(1) The regulations may declare that, for the purposes of describing, in a title or other instrument under this Act, the position on the surface of the Earth of a point, line or area:
(a) a specified datum is the current datum; and
(b) that datum replaces the previous datum.
(2) The previous datum is:
(a) if a datum is the first datum declared to be the current datum under subsection (1)—the Australian Geodetic Datum; or
(b) in any other case—the datum that was the current datum immediately before the changeover time.
(3) The changeover time is the time when the declaration takes effect.