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Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973
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#### 7 Limits of territorial sea
(1) The Governor‑General may, from time to time, by Proclamation, declare, not inconsistently with Section 2 of Part II of the Convention, the limits of the whole or of any part of the territorial sea.
(2) For the purposes of such a Proclamation, the Governor‑General may, in particular, determine either or both of the following:
(a) the breadth of the territorial sea;
(b) the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea, or of any part of the territorial sea, is to be measured.