Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 26

                   In any Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

                     (a)  The High Court shall mean the High Court of Australia;

                     (b)  Federal Court shall mean the High Court or any court created by the Parliament;

                     (c)  Court exercising federal jurisdiction shall mean any court when exercising federal jurisdiction and shall include federal courts;

                     (d)  Court of summary jurisdiction shall mean any justice or justices of the peace or other magistrate of the Commonwealth or part of the Commonwealth, or of a State or part of a State, or of an external Territory, sitting as a court (other than the Federal Magistrates Court) for the making of summary orders or the summary punishment of offences under the law of the Commonwealth or part of the Commonwealth or under the law of the State or external Territory or by virtue of his or their commission or commissions or any Imperial Act;

                     (e)  Justice of the Peace includes a Justice of the Peace for a State or part of a State or for a Territory.