Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act applies in relation to the Greater Sunrise special regime area, the Greater Sunrise pipeline international offshore area and the Bayu - Undan pipeline international offshore area as if references in this Act to Australia, when used in a geographical sense, included references to the Greater Sunrise special regime area, the Greater Sunrise pipeline international offshore area and the Bayu - Undan pipeline international offshore area.
(2) The extended application given to this Act by subsection (1) extends only in relation to:
(a) acts, matters and things directly or indirectly connected with:
(i) Petroleum Activities (within the meaning of the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) relating to the Greater Sunrise Fields (within the meaning of that treaty); or
(ii) construction, operation, maintenance or decommissioning of a pipeline in the Greater Sunrise pipeline international offshore area; or
(iii) operation, maintenance or decommissioning of the Bayu - Undan Pipeline (within the meaning of that treaty); and
(b) acts done by or in relation to, and matters, circumstances and things affecting, any person who is:
(i) in the Greater Sunrise special regime area for a reason directly or indirectly connected with such Petroleum Activities; or
(ii) in the Greater Sunrise pipeline international offshore area for a reason directly or indirectly connected with the construction, operation, maintenance or decommissioning of a pipeline in the area; or
(iii) in the Bayu - Undan pipeline international offshore area for a reason directly or indirectly connected with the operation, maintenance or decommissioning of the Bayu - Undan Pipeline.
(3) In this section:
"Bayu-Undan pipeline international offshore area" has the same meaning as in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 .
"Greater Sunrise pipeline international offshore area" has the same meaning as in the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 .
"Greater Sunrise special regime area" has the same meaning as in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 .
"Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty" means the Treaty between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor - Leste Establishing their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea done at New York on 6 March 2018, as in force from time to time.
Note: The Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty could in 2019 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).