Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00015:section:12
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Provision Reference: s 12
Character Range: 106288–107065

12  Meaning of Australian territory
  A reference in a provision of this Act to Australian territory is a reference to:
 (a) Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and any external Territory to which that provision extends; and
 (b) the airspace over an area covered by paragraph (a); and
 (c) the coastal sea of Australia, of Christmas Island, of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and of any other external Territory to which that provision extends.
Note 1: Under subsection 7(2), the regulations may extend this Act, or any provisions of this Act, to external Territories.
Note 2: The definition of coastal sea of Australia or an external Territory in subsection 15B(4) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 includes the airspace over Australia or the external Territory.