(1) Subject to subsection ( 2), this Act extends to all the Territories.
(2) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that, on a day specified in the notice, this Act ceases to extend to an external Territory specified in the notice, and, where such a notice is published:
(a) this Act does not, on or after that day, extend to the Territory so specified;
(b) a reference in this Act to a Territory does not, on or after that day, include a reference to the Territory so specified; and
(c) the Territory so specified shall, on and after that day, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a foreign country.