Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

GAS PIPELINES ACCESS ACT 1998 (NO. 15 OF 1998) - SECT 5

(1)     The Legislative Assembly intends that the operation of this Act, the Gas Pipelines Access (A.C.T.) Law and the Gas Pipelines Access (A.C.T.) Regulations should, as far as possible, extend to the following:

        (a)     things situated in or outside the Territory;

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

        (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 a State, another 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.