2Application of Acts territorially

2 Application of Acts territorially

(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.