Crimes At Sea Act 2000

This Act may be cited as the Crimes at Sea Act 2000.

The provisions of this Act come into operation on the date, or respective dates, fixed by the Administrator by notice in the

Gazette.

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

cooperative scheme means the legislative and administrative scheme for applying and enforcing criminal law in the areas adjacent to the coast of Australia agreed to by the

Commonwealth, the States of the Commonwealth and the Territory.

intergovernmental agreement means an agreement entered into under clause 5 of the cooperative scheme.

To the extent that it is within the legislative competence of the

Territory to give the cooperative scheme the force of law, the cooperative scheme has the force of law.

For the purposes of the operation of the cooperative scheme in relation to offences prosecuted under a law of the Territory:

a reference in the cooperative scheme to an indictable offence is to be construed as a reference to an indictable offence as defined in section 3(2) of the Criminal Code; and

a reference in the cooperative scheme to a summary offence is to be construed as a reference to an a summary offence as defined in section 3(3) of the Criminal Code.

Nothing in or under this Act or the cooperative scheme affects the discretion of a court under a law of the Territory to determine whether an offence is to be tried summarily or on indictment.

The Minister must publish the intergovernmental agreement, and any amendments of the intergovernmental agreement, in the Gazette.

The cooperative scheme is set out in the Schedule.

The Criminal Law (Offences at Sea) Act 1979 (Act No. 47 of

1979) is repealed.