Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (4), this Act applies to all ships in coastal waters.
(2) Coastal waters may be generally described as the area extending from the low water mark on the coast of the Territory to an imaginary line 3 n miles seawards of that mark.
(3) Subsection (2) is intended only to provide general assistance to a reader of this Act and is not to be taken as replacing or modifying in any way the definition of coastal waters in section 6.
(4) This Act does not apply to:
(a) a ship under the control of the Australian Defence Force; or
(b) a warship, naval auxiliary or other ship owned or operated by a foreign country and used, for the time being, only on government, non-commercial service of the country.