Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 18

                   In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

                     (a)  The United Kingdom shall mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;

                     (b)  British possession shall mean any part of the King's dominions exclusive of the United Kingdom, and where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local Legislature all parts under the central Legislature shall for the purposes of this definition be deemed to be one British possession.