BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 261 Foreign vessels and the Australian Antarctic Territory

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 261

  (1)   For the purposes of this Chapter, a foreign vessel that is within the outer limits of the territorial sea of the Australian Antarctic Territory is taken not to be in Australian seas.

  (2)   In addition, a foreign vessel:

  (a)   whose Administration is a party to the Ballast Water Convention; and

  (b)   that is within the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone adjacent to the coast of the Australian Antarctic Territory;

is also taken not to be in Australian seas.