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CRIMES AT SEA ACT 1998 - As at 26 July 2021 - Act 173 of 1998 - NOTES

Reprint history:

Reprint No 1   21 June 2005  

Preamble

The Commonwealth and the States have agreed to a cooperative scheme to apply the criminal law of the States extraterritorially in the areas adjacent to the coast of Australia.
Under the scheme, the criminal law of each State is to apply in the area adjacent to the State:

(a) for a distance of 12 nautical miles from the baseline for the State--by force of the law of the State, and
(b) beyond 12 nautical miles up to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baseline for the State or the outer limit of the continental shelf (whichever is the greater distance)--by force of the law of the Commonwealth.
Responsibility for administering criminal justice in the area covered by the scheme will be divided between the Commonwealth and the States under the scheme and an intergovernmental agreement.
The purpose of this Act is to give legal force to the scheme (so far as it depends on the legislative power of the State) and to provide for consequential vesting of judicial and other powers.
The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am amended LW legislation website Sch Schedule
Cl clause No number Schs Schedules
Cll clauses p page Sec section
Div Division pp pages Secs sections
Divs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv Subdivision
GG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs Subdivisions
Ins inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted

Table of amending instruments

Crimes at Sea Act 1998 No 173. Assented to 14.12.1998. Date of commencement, 31.3.2001, sec 2 and GG No 60 of 30.3.2001, p 1575. This Act has been amended as follows:

1999 No 31 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999. Assented to 7.7.1999.
Date of commencement of Sch 2.9, assent, sec 2 (2).
2000 No 83 Crimes at Sea Amendment Act 2000. Assented to 5.12.2000.
Date of commencement, 31.3.2001, sec 2 and GG No 60 of 30.3.2001, p 1576.
2003 No 82 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2003. Assented to 27.11.2003.
Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2 (1).
2007 No 27 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2007. Assented to 4.7.2007.
Date of commencement of Sch 1.12 [1[#93]-[3[#93] and [9[#93], assent, sec 2 (2); date of commencment of Sch 1.12 [4[#93]-[8[#93], 1.7.2008, Sch 1.12 and Commonwealth FRLI F2008L02273.
2011 No 27 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011. Assented to 27.6.2011.
Date of commencement of Sch 2.12, 8.7.2011, sec 2 (2).

Table of amendments

Sec 8 Subst 2000 No 83, Sch 1 [1[#93].
Sec 9 Rep 2003 No 82, Sch 3.
Sec 10 Ins 2000 No 83, Sch 1 [2[#93].
Sch 1 Am 1999 No 31, Sch 2.9 [1[#93]-[8[#93]; 2000 No 83, Sch 1 [3[#93]-[19[#93]; 2007 No 27, Sch 1.12 [1[#93]-[9[#93]; 2011 No 27, Sch 2.12 [1[#93]-[3[#93].
Sch 2 Rep 2003 No 82, Sch 3.


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