These regulations shall comprise the Rules set out in the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 which Rules are set out in Schedule 3 to the Western Australian Marine Act 1982, amended pursuant to Part IV of that Act and set out as so amended in these regulations and shall have effect in relation to vessels, while they are in the area constituted by ¾

(a) the territorial sea adjacent to the State;

(b) the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea adjacent to the State that is not within the limits of the State; and

(c) waters within the limits of the State.