Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189:section:56ao:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00189
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 56AO (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 736284–737492

act or omission includes sending, omitting to send, causing to be sent or omitting to cause to be sent an electronic communication or other thing:
 (a) from a point outside Australia to a point inside Australia; or
 (b) from a point inside Australia to a point outside Australia;
that act or omission is taken to have occurred partly in Australia.
 (5) In this section:
Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes all the external Territories.
Australian aircraft has the same meaning as in the Criminal Code.
Australian person means:
 (a) a body corporate established by or under a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory; or
 (b) an Australian citizen, a permanent resident (within the meaning of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007), or any other person ordinarily resident within Australia or an external Territory; or
 (c) an entity covered by subsection 56AR(1), (2) or (3) (about Australian government entities).
Australian ship has the same meaning as in the Criminal Code.
foreign person means a person other than an Australian person.
point includes a mobile or potentially mobile point, whether on land, underground, in the atmosphere, underwater, at sea or anywhere else.