Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsSection 80 does not give to the provisions of a law of a State or the Northern Territory an operation, as a law of the Commonwealth, that they would not have, as a law of the State or the Northern Territory, if it were assumed that the offshore area of the State or the Northern Territory were within the part of the scheduled area for the State or the Northern Territory that is on the landward side of the offshore area of the State or the Northern Territory.