Off-Shore Waters (Application of Territory Laws) Act 1985

The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the

Regulations may provide that such provisions, or classes of provisions, of laws of the Territory as are specified in the

Regulations do not:

have effect in or in relation to the coastal waters of the

Territory;

apply to or in relation to specified acts or omissions within those waters, or specified classes of acts done or omitted to be done within those waters; or

have effect in specified circumstances or in specified parts of those waters,

and, where such regulations are made, this Act shall be construed to apply the laws in force in the Territory subject to and in accordance with those regulations.