Commonwealth Numbered Acts Commonwealth Numbered Acts(1) This section applies to an offshore area of a State or the Northern Territory if the gas pipelines access legislation of the State or the Northern Territory, as the case may be, is not in force (with or without modifications) in the part of the scheduled area for the State or the Northern Territory, as the case may be, that is on the landward side of that offshore area.
(2) Despite any law that is in force as a law of the Commonwealth in the offshore area of the State or Territory because of section 59, the Gas Pipelines Access (Commonwealth) Act 1998 applies as a law of the Commonwealth in that offshore area.
(3) This section has effect subject to section 192.
Note: Section 192 is about common carriers.
(4) In this section:
"Gas Pipelines Access Law" has the same meaning as in subsection 5(1) of the Gas Pipelines Access (Commonwealth) Act 1998 .
"gas pipelines access legislation" has the same meaning as in the Gas Pipelines Access Law.