Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Act 2019 (57 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Provisions commencing when new treaty comes into force

Part 7   Amendment of the Crimes at Sea Act 2000

Division 1   Amendments

Crimes at Sea Act 2000

17   Subsection 6A(6)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(6) The Commonwealth and Northern Territory laws of criminal investigation, procedure and evidence from time to time apply to a criminal act done in the Greater Sunrise special regime area that is connected with, or arises out of, petroleum activities in the same way as those laws would apply to a maritime offence under clause 3 of Schedule 1 if in paragraph (2)(b) of that clause:

(a) a reference to a State or to the State were a reference to the Northern Territory; and

(b) the reference to the area of administrative responsibility for the relevant State were a reference to the Greater Sunrise special regime area.