means any machine or craft that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air.

includes the external Territories.

means:

(a) the territorial sea of Australia; and

(b) the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea of Australia and not within the limits of a State or the Northern Territory.

means:

(a) a ship registered in Australia; or

(b) an unregistered ship having Australian nationality.

means the Australian Maritime Safety established by this Act.

includes ballast and ship’s stores and fuel.

includes a civil action.

means a corporation to which paragraph 51(xx) of the Constitution applies.

of a tangible asset means:

(a) in the case of land, seabed or premises—the occupier of the land, seabed or premises; or

means the International Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties (a copy of the English text of which is set forth in Schedule 1), as amended from time to time.

means a direction under paragraph 8(2)(b), 9(2)(b) or 10(3)(b) or a further direction under section 15.

means:

(a) a communication of information in the form of data, text or images by means of guided and/or unguided electromagnetic energy; or

has the same meaning as in the

Criminal Code

.

has the same meaning as in the

Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973

.

includes:

(a)  ships, aircraft and other vehicles;

(b)  animals, including fish;

(c)  minerals, trees and crops, whether on, under or attached to land or not; and

means all parts of the sea to which Part VII of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea applies.

means waters of the sea within the limits of a State or the Northern Territory. For this purpose,

sea

includes any waters within the ebb and flow of the tide.

, in relation to a ship, means the person having command or charge of the ship.

, in relation to a ship that is operated by a person (not being the of the ship) who has whole possession and control of the ship, means the operator of the ship.

means the Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Pollution by Substances other than Oil, 1973 (being the a copy of whose English text is set out in Schedule 2), as affected by the following resolutions of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime O