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BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 12

Meaning of Australian territory

    A reference in a provision of this Act to Australian territory is a reference to:

  (a)   Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and any external Territory to which that provision extends; and

  (b)   the airspace over an area covered by paragraph   (a); and

  (c)   the coastal sea of Australia, of Christmas Island, of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and of any other external Territory to which that provision extends.

Note 1:   Under subsection   7(2), the regulations may extend this Act, or any provisions of this Act, to external Territories.

Note 2:   The definition of coastal sea of Australia or an external Territory in subsection   15B(4) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 includes the airspace over Australia or the external Territory.


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