Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN ENERGY MARKET ACT 2004 - SECT 5

    It is the intention of the Parliament that the operation of:

  (a)   this Act; and

  (b)   the National Electricity (Commonwealth) Law and Regulations; and

  (c)   the National Gas (Commonwealth) Law and Regulations; and

  (d)   the Offshore Western Australian Pipelines (Commonwealth) Law and Regulations; and

  (e)   a prescribed uniform energy law applied as a law of the Commonwealth;

should, as far as possible, include operation in relation to the following:

  (f)   things situated in or outside Australia;

  (g)   acts, transactions and matters done, entered into or occurring in or outside Australia;

  (h)   things, acts, transactions and matters (wherever situated, done, entered into or occurring) that would, apart from this Act, be governed or otherwise affected by the law of a State, a Territory or a foreign country.

Note:   Section   17 of the National Energy Retail Law (Commonwealth) provides for the extra - territorial operation of the National Energy Retail Law (Commonwealth).