Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00179:section:8:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00179
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 25243–28043

8  Definitions
  In this Act:
acts jointly with: for when a person acts jointly with another person, see subsection 84(2).
applicable document means:
 (a) an application made to the Minister or the Registrar under Chapter 3 (licensing); or
 (b) a document accompanying such an application; or
 (c) a report, return or other document that relates to a licence or an application for a licence and was given to the Minister or the Registrar under:
 (i) Chapter 3 (licensing) or 7 (information relating to offshore infrastructure); or
 (ii) regulations made for the purposes of those Chapters.
applied State and Territory provisions: see subsection 248(2).
applied work health and safety provisions means the provisions of the Work Health and Safety Act, and (subject to section 243 of this Act) the regulations made under that Act, as applied by Part 1 of Chapter 6 of this Act.
approval period: see section 85.
Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories to which this Act extends.
Note: For the external Territories to which this Act extends, see section 5.
Australian national means:
 (a) an Australian citizen; or
 (b) a body corporate established by, or under, a law of:
 (i) the Commonwealth; or
 (ii) a State; or
 (iii) a Territory; or
 (c) the Commonwealth; or
 (d) a State; or
 (e) a Territory.
Australian vessel has the same meaning as Australian ship has in the Customs Act 1901.
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets means:
 (a) if:
 (i) Australia's current nationally determined contribution was communicated in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement in June 2022; and
 (ii) that nationally determined contribution has not been adjusted in accordance with paragraph 11 of Article 4 of the Paris Agreement;
  the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets set out in paragraphs 10(1)(a) and (b) of the Climate Change Act 2022; or
 (b) in any other case—the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets included in:
 (i) Australia's current nationally determined contribution communicated in accordance with Article 4 of the Paris Agreement; or
 (ii) if that nationally determined contribution has been adjusted in accordance with paragraph 11 of Article 4 of the Paris Agreement—that nationally determined contribution, as adjusted and in force from time to time.
authorised safety zone official: see section 140.
CEO means the Chief Executive Officer of NOPSEMA.
Note 1: See section 176.
Note 2: NOPSEMA is the Regulator for the purposes of this Act (see section 175).
change in control: for when there is a change in control of a licence holder, see subsection 84(4).
civil penalty provision has the same meaning as in the Regulatory Powers Act.
coastal waters:
 (a) of a State—means that part of the sea that is included in the