Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE ACT 2021 - SECT 151

Foreign nationals--no involvement of vessel

  (1)   This Subdivision does not apply to anything done, or omitted to be done, if:

  (a)   the thing is done, or omitted to be done, by a foreign national; and

  (b)   the thing is done, or omitted to be done, in, on, or beneath the seabed that lies beneath the waters of the exclusive economic zone of Australia; and

  (c)   the thing done, or omitted to be done, does not involve a vessel;

unless the thing done, or omitted to be done, touches, concerns, arises out of or is connected with:

  (d)   the exploration of the continental shelf of Australia; or

  (e)   the exploitation of the resources of the continental shelf of Australia (including the exploitation of the resources of the waters of the exclusive economic zone); or

  (f)   the operations of artificial islands, installations or structures that are under Australia's jurisdiction.

Foreign nationals--involvement of foreign vessel

  (2)   This Subdivision does not apply to anything done, or omitted to be done, if:

  (a)   the thing is done, or omitted to be done, by a foreign national; and

  (b)   the thing is done, or omitted to be done, in the waters of the exclusive economic zone of Australia; and

  (c)   the thing done, or omitted to be done, involves a foreign vessel;

unless the thing done, or omitted to be done, touches, concerns, arises out of or is connected with:

  (d)   the exploration of the continental shelf of Australia; or

  (e)   the exploitation of the resources of the continental shelf of Australia (including the exploitation of the resources of the waters of the exclusive economic zone); or

  (f)   the operations of artificial islands, installations or structures that are under Australia's jurisdiction.