Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION ACT 2020 - SECT 10

    In this Act:

"Australia" , when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.

"Australian offshore area" means:

  (a)   any waters on the landward side of the territorial sea of Australia that are not within the limits of a State; or

  (b)   the territorial sea of Australia; or

  (c)   the exclusive economic zone of Australia; or

  (d)   the sea above the continental shelf of Australia;

and includes the airspace over an area covered by paragraph   (a), (b), (c) or (d).

"emergency management" means any of the following engaged in before, during or in the immediate aftermath of an emergency:

  (a)   emergency risk reduction;

  (b)   emergency preparedness;

  (c)   emergency response;

  (d)   emergency recovery.

"law of the Commonwealth" includes a law in force in an external Territory or the Jervis Bay Territory, so far as the law is so in force because of an Act providing for the acceptance, administration or government of that Territory.

"national emergency declaration" : see subsection   11(1).

"national emergency law" means the following:

  (a)   section   15 or 16 of this Act;

  (b)   section   16 of the Adelaide Airport Curfew Act 2000 ;

  (c)   section   14 of the Air Navigation (Essendon Fields Airport) Regulations   2018 ;

  (d)   section   17 of the Air Navigation (Gold Coast Airport Curfew) Regulations   2018 ;

  (e)   section   250 of the Airports Act 1996 ;

  (f)   section   20 of the Air Services Regulations   2019 ;

  (g)   Division   7 of Part   4 of the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 ;

  (h)   section   16A or 17 of the Christmas Island Emergency Management Ordinance 2012 ;

  (i)   regulation   11.185 of the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations   1998 ;

  (j)   section   16A or 17 of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Emergency Management Ordinance 2012 ;

  (k)   section   88 or 90 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 ;

  (l)   section   23YUF of the Crimes Act 1914 ;

  (m)   section   96A of the Designs Act 2003 ;

  (n)   section   9 of the Disaster and Emergency Management Act 2001 (Norfolk Island);

  (o)   section   28 or 158 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 ;

  (p)   section   19 of the Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981 ;

  (q)   section   30 - 45A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ;

  (r)   section   67 of the Industrial Chemicals Act 2019 ;

  (s)   section   15 of the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management Ordinance 2015 ;

  (t)   section   16 of the Liquid Fuel Emergency Act 1984 ;

  (u)   section   33 of the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 ;

  (v)   section   86E of the National Health Act 1953 ;

  (w)   Part   2 and section   60A of the National Health Security Act 2007 ;

  (x)   clause   2A of Schedule   2A of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 ;

  (y)   section   163A of the Patents Act 1990 ;

  (z)   section   80J of the Privacy Act 1988 ;

  (za)   section   49, 196, 219, 220 or 269 of the Radiocommunications Act 1992 ;

  (zaa)   section   35AB of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 ;

  (zb)   section   36 or 36A of the Social Security Act 1991 ;

  (zba)   section   123SJ or 123SM of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 ;

  (zbb)   section   123SP of the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 ;

  (zd)   section   18 of the Sydney Airport Curfew Act 1995 ;

  (zda)   section   355 - 66 in Schedule   1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 ;

  (ze)   section   313 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 ;

  (zf)   section   18A, 32CB or 41GS of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 .

"nationally significant harm" means harm that:

  (a)   has a significant national impact because of its scale or consequences; and

  (b)   is any of the following:

  (i)   harm to the life or health (including mental health) of an individual or group of individuals;

  (ii)   harm to the life or health of animals or plants;

  (iii)   damage to property, including infrastructure;

  (iv)   harm to the environment;

  (v)   disruption to an essential service.