Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
(a) expressions used to denote persons generally (such as "person", "party", "someone", "anyone", "no‑one", "one", "another" and "whoever"), include a body politic or corporate as well as an individual;
(aa) individual means a natural person;
(b) Month shall mean calendar month;
(c) Land shall include messuages tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of any tenure or description, and whatever may be the estate or interest therein;
(d) Estate shall include any estate or interest charge right title claim demand lien or incumbrance at law or in equity;
(e) Financial year means a period of 12 months commencing on 1 July;
(f) Foreign country means any country (whether or not an independent sovereign state) outside Australia and the external Territories;
(g) Calendar month means a period commencing at the beginning of a day of one of the 12 months of the year and ending immediately before the beginning of the corresponding day of the next month or, if there is no such corresponding day, ending at the expiration of the next month;
(h) Calendar year means a period of 12 months commencing on 1 January; and
(j) Contravene includes fail to comply with.
(2) Express references in an Act to companies, corporations or bodies corporate do not imply that expressions in the Act of the kind mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) do not include companies, corporations or bodies corporate.
(3) In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to the law of the Commonwealth or to a law of the Commonwealth does not include, and shall be deemed never to have included, a reference to a law in force in a Territory in so far as the law is so in force by virtue of an Act providing for the acceptance, administration or government of that Territory.
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