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This Act may be cited as the Offshore Waters Jurisdiction Act 1976 .
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Tasmania act
This Act declares that a State's penal laws apply to acts and omissions in its internal waters, the adjacent territorial sea, and a specified offshore area defined by latitude/longitude (s 2). It therefore extends State criminal jurisdiction to those maritime zones.
Who is affected: people and operators in those waters may be prosecuted under State penal law (definition of "penal laws", s 3). Who decides and enforces: State authorities bring proceedings; the territorial reach changes with how "territorial sea" extends (s 3), creating variable compliance and enforcement exposure.
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Direct links to the current provisions in Offshore Waters Jurisdiction Act 1976.
This Act may be cited as the Offshore Waters Jurisdiction Act 1976 .
(1) It is hereby declared and enacted that to the extent that it is necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the State the penal laws of the State apply to acts and omissions occurring in, on, under, or over –
(a) the internal waters adjacent to the coast of the State;
(b) the territorial sea adjacent to the coast of the State; and
(c) so much of the area referred to in subsection (2) as is beyond those waters and that sea.
(2) The area referred to in subsection (1) (c) is the area that lies to the southward of Wilson's Promontory in 39 degrees and 12 minutes of south latitude and to the northward of the 45th degree of south latitude, and between the 140th and 150th degrees of longitude east of Greenwich.
In this Act –
internal waters means any waters of the sea on the landward side of the baseline of the territorial sea;
penal laws means so much of the law of the State as relates to offences and the taking of proceedings or other action in relation thereto;
territorial sea means the territorial sea of Australia so far as it extends from time to time.
Sourced from Tasmanian Legislation Online (legislation.tas.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.
This Act may be cited as the Offshore Waters Jurisdiction Act 1976 .
(1) It is hereby declared and enacted that to the extent that it is necessary for the peace, order, and good government of the State the penal laws of the State apply to acts and omissions occurring in, on, under, or over –
(a) the internal waters adjacent to the coast of the State;
(b) the territorial sea adjacent to the coast of the State; and
(c) so much of the area referred to in subsection (2) as is beyond those waters and that sea.
(2) The area referred to in subsection (1) (c) is the area that lies to the southward of Wilson's Promontory in 39 degrees and 12 minutes of south latitude and to the northward of the 45th degree of south latitude, and between the 140th and 150th degrees of longitude east of Greenwich.
In this Act –
internal waters means any waters of the sea on the landward side of the baseline of the territorial sea;
penal laws means so much of the law of the State as relates to offences and the taking of proceedings or other action in relation thereto;
territorial sea means the territorial sea of Australia so far as it extends from time to time.