8Extension of this Act to external Territories and other areas

8  Extension of this Act to external Territories and other areas  (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act does not extend to the external Territories.  (2) The rules may extend this Act, or any provisions of this Act:  (a) to an external Territory that is prescribed by the rules; or  (b) to any of the following areas that are prescribed by the rules:  (i) the whole or a part of the exclusive economic zone adjacent to an external Territory;  (ii) the whole or a part of the area that is on or in the continental shelf adjacent to an external Territory and is not within the exclusive economic zone adjacent to that Territory; or  (c) to an area outside the Australian fishing zone in relation to which the Fisheries Management Act 1991 applies under regulations made for the purposes of section 8 of that Act.  (3) The rules may extend this Act, or any provisions of this Act, to an area adjacent to an external Territory under subparagraph (2)(b)(i) or (ii) whether or not this Act extends to that external Territory. Note 1: The reference to this Act includes a reference to instruments made under this Act (see the definition of this Act in section 12). Note 2: A provision of this Act that extends to an external Territory is taken to have effect in, and in relation to, the coastal sea of the Territory as if that coastal sea were part of the Territory (see subsection 15B(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901).