Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMPETITION AND CONSUMER ACT 2010 - SECT 4N

  (1)   Part   IIIA, and the other provisions of this Act so far as they relate to Part   IIIA, extend to services provided by means of facilities that are, or will be, wholly or partly within:

  (a)   an external Territory; or

  (b)   the offshore area, within the meaning of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006 , of a State, a Territory or an external Territory.

  (3)   Nothing in subsection   (1) affects the operation of section   15B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 in respect of the application of Part   IIIA, and of the other provisions of this Act so far as they relate to Part   IIIA, in any part of:

  (a)   the coastal sea of Australia; or

  (b)   the coastal sea of an external Territory;

that is on the landward side of each of the offshore areas referred to in that subsection.

  (4)   For the purposes of this section:

"service" includes proposed service covered by Division   2A of Part   IIIA.