Western Australian Consolidated Acts

OFF-SHORE (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1982 - SECT 3

3 .         Application of laws of the State to the coastal waters of the State

        (1)         It is declared that — 

            (a)         the provisions of every law of the State shall be taken to have effect in and in relation to the coastal waters of the State, including the sea-bed and subsoil beneath and the airspace above the coastal waters of the State, as if those waters were part of Western Australia; and

            (b)         any reference in a written law of the State to Western Australia or to the State or to the jurisdiction or any other like reference shall be read as including a reference to the coastal waters of the State.

        (2)         Nothing in subsection (1) shall be taken — 

            (a)         to limit the operation of any written law of the State intended to operate beyond the coastal waters of the State; or

            (b)         to apply the provisions of the criminal laws of the State to or in relation to the coastal waters of the State or the sea-bed or subsoil beneath or the airspace above those waters.

        [Section 3 amended by No. 11 of 2000 s. 9.]