Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

CRIMES AT SEA ACT 2000 - NOTES

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

CRIMES AT SEA ACT 2000

As in force at 31 March 2001

Table of provisions

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

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This reprint shows the Act as in force at 31 March 2001. Any amendments that commence after that date are not included.

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CRIMES AT SEA ACT 2000

WHEREAS:

1. The Commonwealth, the States of the Commonwealth and the Territory have agreed to a cooperative scheme to apply the criminal law of the States of the Commonwealth and the Territory extraterritorially in the areas adjacent to the coast of Australia.

2. Under the scheme, the criminal law of a State of the Commonwealth or of the Territory is to apply in the area adjacent to the State or to the Territory:

        (a) for a distance of 12 nautical miles from the baseline for the State or the Territory – by force of the law of the State or the Territory; and

        (b) beyond 12 nautical miles up to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baseline for the State or the Territory or the outer limit of the continental shelf (whichever is the greater distance) – by force of the law of the Commonwealth.

3. Responsibility for administering criminal justice in the area covered by the scheme will be divided between the Commonwealth, the States of the Commonwealth and the Territory under the scheme and an intergovernmental agreement.

4. The purpose of this Act is to give legal force to the cooperative, scheme, so far as it depends on the legislative power of the Territory, and to provide for consequential vesting of judicial and other powers.

ENDNOTES

1     KEY

Key to abbreviations

amd = amended                 od = order
app = appendix                 om = omitted
bl = by-law                     pt = Part
ch = Chapter                     r = regulation/rule
cl = clause                     rem = remainder
div = Division                     renum = renumbered
exp = expires/expired                 rep = repealed
f = forms                     s = section
Gaz = Gazette                     sch = Schedule
hdg = heading                     sdiv = Subdivision
ins = inserted                     SL = Subordinate Legislation
lt = long title                     sub = substituted

nc = not commenced                

2     LIST OF LEGISLATION

Crimes at Sea Act 2000 (Act No. 73, 2000)
Assent date	14 December 2000
Commenced	31 March 2001 (Gaz G11, 21 March 2001, p 3)