Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Gas Pipelines Access (Victoria) Act 1998 - SECT 6

Extra-territorial operation

6. Extra-territorial operation



(1) It is the intention of the Parliament that the operation of this Act, the
Gas Pipelines Access (Victoria) Law and the Gas Pipelines Access (Victoria)
Regulations should, as far as possible, include operation in relation to the
following-

   (a)  things situated in or outside this State;

   (b)  acts, transactions and matters done, entered into or occurring in or
        outside this State;

   (c)  things, acts, transactions and matters (wherever situated, done,
        entered into or occurring) that would, apart from this Act, be
        governed or otherwise affected by the law of another State, a
        Territory, the Commonwealth or a foreign country.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) has effect in relation to a pipeline to the
extent that the pipeline is situated, or partly situated, beyond the
jurisdictional areas of all the scheme participants.

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