10Definitions

10 Definitions

In this Act:

Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.

Australian offshore area means:

(a) any waters on the landward side of the territorial sea of Australia that are not within the limits of a State; or
(b) the territorial sea of Australia; or
(c) the exclusive economic zone of Australia; or
(d) the sea above the continental shelf of Australia;

and includes the airspace over an area covered by paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d).

emergency management means any of the following engaged in before, during or in the immediate aftermath of an emergency:

(a) emergency risk reduction;
(b) emergency preparedness;
(c) emergency response;
(d) emergency recovery.

law of the Commonwealth includes a law in force in an external Territory or the Jervis Bay Territory, so far as the law is so in force because of an Act providing for the acceptance, administration or government of that Territory.

national emergency declaration: see subsection 11(1).

national emergency law means the following:

(a) section 15 or 16 of this Act;
(b) section 16 of the Adelaide Airport Curfew Act 2000;
(c) section 14 of the Air Navigation (Essendon Fields Airport) Regulations 2018;
(d) section 17 of the Air Navigation (Gold Coast Airport Curfew) Regulations 2018;
(e) section 250 of the Airports Act 1996;
(f) section 20 of the Air Services Regulations 2019;
(g) Division 7 of Part 4 of the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004;
(h) section 16A or 17 of the Christmas Island Emergency Management Ordinance 2012;
(i) regulation 11.185 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998;
(j) section 16A or 17 of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Emergency Management Ordinance 2012;
(k) section 88 or 90 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010;
(l) section 23YUF of the Crimes Act 1914;
(m) section 96A of the Designs Act 2003;
(n) section 9 of the Disaster and Emergency Management Act 2001 (Norfolk Island);
(o) section 28 or 158 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999;
(p) section 19 of the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981;
(q) section 30‑45A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997;
(r) section 67 of the Industrial Chemicals Act 2019;
(s) section 15 of the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management Ordinance 2015;
(t) section 16 of the Liquid Fuel Emergency Act 1984;
(u) section 33 of the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003;
(v) section 86E of the National Health Act 1953;
(w) Part 2 and section 60A of the National Health Security Act 2007;
(x) clause 2A of Schedule 2A of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006;
(y) section 163A of the Patents Act 1990;
(z) section 80J of the Privacy Act 1988;
(za) section 49, 196, 219, 220 or 269 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992;
(zaa) section 35AB of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018;
(zb) section 36 or 36A of the Social Security Act 1991;
(zba) section 123SJ or 123SM of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999;
(zbb) section 123SP of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999;
(zd) section 18 of the Sydney Airport Curfew Act 1995;
(zda) section 355‑66 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953;
(ze) section 313 of the Telecommunications Act 1997;
(zf) section 18A, 32CB or 41GS of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.