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CRIMES (INTERNATIONALLY PROTECTED PERSONS) ACT 1976 - SECT 3

Interpretation

(1)
In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Australia" includes:

(a)
all the Territories; and
(b)
the Australian coastal sea.
"Australian aircraft" means:

(a)
an aircraft registered or required to be registered in accordance with the Civil Aviation Regulations as an Australian aircraft;
(b)
an aircraft that is owned by, or is in the possession or control of, the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth; or
(c)
an aircraft of any part of the Defence Force, including an aircraft that is being commanded or piloted by a member of that Force in the course of the member's duties as such a member.
"Australian coastal sea" means any sea or waters the sovereignty in respect of which is declared by the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 to be vested in the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, and includes the airspace over, and the seabed and subsoil beneath, any such sea or waters.

"Australian ship" means:

(a)
a ship registered in Australia; or
(b)
a ship that belongs to an arm of the Defence Force.
"Convention" means the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents, that was opened for signature at New York on 14 December 1973, a copy of the English text of which is set out in the Schedule.

(3)
Except so far as the contrary intention appears, an expression that is used in this Act and in the Convention has, in this Act, the same meaning as in the Convention, whether or not a particular meaning is expressly assigned to it by the Convention and whether or not the Convention has entered into force in pursuance of paragraph 1 of article 17 of the Convention.


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