Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00547:section:47:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00547
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 47 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 30775–33251

47  Application of laws in areas adjacent to Territories
 (1) Subject to this Act, the laws, whether written or unwritten, in force in an affected Territory for the time being (other than laws of the Commonwealth), and any instrument having effect under any of those laws, apply, as provided by, and by force of, this section, in relation to all matters relating to sea installations installed, or being installed, in the adjacent area of the Territory and so apply as if that area were part of that Territory and, in the case of the Northern Territory, were part of the Commonwealth.
 (2) The laws referred to in subsection (1) do not include laws that are substantive criminal laws, or laws of criminal investigation, procedure and evidence, within the meaning of Schedule 1 to the Crimes at Sea Act 2000, but nothing in this Act derogates from the operation of that Act.
 (3) A law shall be taken to be a law in force in a Territory notwithstanding that it applies to part only of that Territory.
 (4) Without limiting the operation of subsection (1), a law or instrument referred to in that subsection relating to a Territory applies:
 (a) in relation to:
 (i) an act or omission that takes place on or in the vicinity of; and
 (ii) a matter that exists or arises in relation to;
  a sea installation installed, or being installed, in the adjacent area of the Territory or a ship, aircraft, structure or installation, or equipment or other property, that is in the adjacent area for any reason relating to such a sea installation;
 (b) in relation to a person who:
 (i) is on such a sea installation;
 (ii) is in the adjacent area for a reason of the kind referred to in paragraph (a); or
 (iii) is on or in the vicinity of a ship, aircraft, structure or installation, or equipment or other property, that is in the adjacent area for a reason of the kind referred to in paragraph (a); and
 (c) in relation to a person in respect of the person carrying on any operation or doing any work in the adjacent area for a reason of the kind referred to in paragraph (a).
 (5) This section does not:
 (a) give to a law of a Territory an operation, as law of the Commonwealth, that it would not have, as law of the Territory, if the adjacent area of the Territory were within so much of the part of the area described in Schedule 1 of the Petroleum Act under the heading that refers to that Territory as is on the landward side of the adjacent area;
 (b) extend to the provisions of