Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PETROLEUM (AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA ZONE OF COOPERATION) ACT 1990 No. 36, 1990 - SECT 11

11. (1) Subject to this section, in exercising jurisdiction conferred by
section 10, a court is to apply the laws, whether written or unwritten, in
force in the Northern Territory.

(2) The laws referred to in subsection (1) do not include laws that are
criminal laws within the meaning of the Crimes at Sea Act 1979, but nothing in
this section detracts from the operation of that Act.

(3) A law is taken to be in force in the Northern Territory even if it applies
only in part of the Northern Territory.

(4) This section does not require a court to apply a law that is inconsistent
with a law of the Commonwealth (including this Act).

(5) This section does not limit the operation that any law has apart from this
section.

(6) The regulations may provide that a law, or specified provisions of a law,
referred to in subsection (1) are not to be applied for the purposes of that
subsection, or are to be so applied with specified modifications.