Section 2Application

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Section 2: Application

2. Application

This Act shall apply to,---

(a)

a citizen of India; or

(b)

a citizen of any other country; or

(c)

a company, body corporate, corporation, partnership firm, joint venture, an association of persons or any other entity incorporated, established or registered as such under any law in force in India; or

(d)

any vessel or aircraft registered in India or outside India, if such person, vessel or aircraft is part of an Indian expedition to Antarctica under a permit issued under this Act and shall include any such vessel or aircraft which is registered in India but chartered by any other Party for entering into Antarctica;

(e)

Antarctica, comprising of the following areas, namely:—

(i)

the continent of Antarctica, including its ice-shelves;

(ii)

all islands south of 60 South Latitude, including their ice-shelves;

(iii)

all areas of the continental shelf that are adjacent to that continent or to those islands that are south of 60 South Latitude;

(iv)

all sea and air space south of 60 South Latitude; and

(v)

the area specified in Article I of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.