Crimes at Sea Act 2000.

The purposes of this Act are: (a) to give legal force to a legislative and administrative scheme (the "cooperative scheme") for applying and enforcing criminal law in the areas adjacent to the coast of Australia set out in Schedule 1 (so far as it depends on the legislative power of the Commonwealth) and to provide for consequential vesting of judicial and other powers; and (b) to provide for the application of Australian criminal law in certain cases beyond the are a covered by the scheme. To the extent that it lies within the legislative competence of the Commonwealth to give the cooperative scheme the force of law, it has the force of law. Section 6 deals with Application of Australian criminal law outside the adjacent area which means the whole of the area to which the cooperative scheme applies.