6Criminal laws applicable in relation to Australian ships engaged on certain voyages

##### 6 Criminal laws applicable in relation to Australian ships engaged on certain voyages (1) The provisions of the criminal laws in force in a State or Territory apply to and in relation to: (a) any act that is committed on or from an Australian ship if, at the time when the act was committed, the ship was connected with that State or Territory and was in the course of a prescribed voyage; (b) any act that is committed by a survivor of the wreck or sinking of an Australian ship if, immediately before the ship was wrecked or sunk, it was connected with that State or Territory and was in the course of a prescribed voyage; and (c) any act that is committed on or from an Australian ship in a place in a foreign country if, at the time when the act was committed, the ship was connected with that State or Territory; and so apply as if the act were committed in that State or Territory. (2) For the purposes of this section, an Australian ship shall be taken to be connected with a particular State or Territory at a particular time if: (a) the ship is registered at that time at a place in that State or Territory under an Act or Imperial Act relating to the registration of ships that is applicable throughout the whole of Australia and the external Territories, not being an Act or Imperial Act relating to the registration of ships for a particular purpose or purposes only; (b) in the case of a ship that at that time is not connected by virtue of paragraph (a) with any State or Territory—at that time the ship is registered or licensed for a particular purpose or purposes in that State or Territory under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory; (c) in the case of a ship that at that time is not connected by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) with any State or Territory—at that time a place in that State or Territory serves as a base of operations for the ship; or (d) in the case of a ship that at that time is not connected by virtue of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) with any State or Territory—the ship may, having regard to all relevant considerations, reasonably be regarded as having at that time a connection with that State or Territory. (3) For the purposes of this section, an Australian ship shall be taken to be on a prescribed voyage if: (a) the last preceding place of call of the ship was a place in a State and, at the time of the ship’s departure from that place, it was intended that the next place of call of the ship would be a place outside that State; (b) the last preceding place of call of the ship was a place in the Northern Territory and, at the time of the ship’s departure from that place, it was intended that the next place of call of the ship would be a place outside the Northern Territory; or (c) the last preceding place of call of the ship was a place in a Territory other than the Northern Territory or was a place in a foreign country.