AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 - SECT 3 Interpretation--definitions

AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 - SECT 3

    In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"ACCC" means the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

"article" means any matter or thing, and includes, for example:

  (a)   a letter;

  (b)   a message or information;

  (c)   a direction to pay an amount of money;

  (d)   an envelope, packet, parcel, container or wrapper containing any matter or thing (including a letter, message, information or direction to pay an amount of money); and

  (e)   a message, information, or direction to pay an amount of money, that is not in written form.

"Australia" , when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories to which this Act extends.

"Australia Post" means the Australian Postal Corporation.

"Board" means the Board of Directors of Australia Post.

"borrow" includes raise money or credit.

"carry" , in relation to an article, means:

  (a)   carry the article from one place to another by physical means; or

  (b)   if the article is an unwritten communication--transmit the article from one place to another by electromagnetic or other non - physical means;

and includes:

  (c)   in the case of the carriage of an article from one place to another by physical means--collect or receive the article for carriage and deliver the article after carriage; and

  (d)   in the case of the transmission of an unwritten communication from one place to another by electromagnetic or other non - physical means--collect or receive the communication (whether in written or unwritten form) for transmission and deliver the communication (whether in written or unwritten form) after transmission.

"carry by post" , in relation to an article, has the meaning given by section   4.

"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Board.

"community service obligations" means obligations under section   27.

"convention" means a convention to which Australia is a party or an agreement or arrangement between Australia and a foreign country.

"Deputy Chairperson" means the Deputy Chairperson of the Board.

"director" means a director of the Board and includes the Chairperson, the Deputy Chairperson and the Managing Director.

"Federal Court" means the Federal Court of Australia.

"Finance Minister" means the Minister administering the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 .

"letter" means any form of written communication that is directed to a particular person or address, and includes:

  (a)   any standard postal article;

  (b)   any envelope, packet, parcel, container or wrapper containing such a communication; and

  (c)   any unenclosed written communication that is directed to a particular person or address.

"Managing Director" means the Managing Director of Australia Post.

"office" , in relation to Australia Post, means an office (in Australia or outside Australia):

  (a)   established by Australia Post for the supply of postal services; or

  (b)   conducted by an agent of Australia Post.

"ordinary post" , in relation to the carrying of an article, has the meaning given by section   5.

"postage" , in relation to a postal article, means the amount payable for the carrying of the article by post (including any special charge or additional fee payable for special services supplied in relation to the carrying of the article).

"postage stamp" includes an imprinted or printed mark, label or design authorised by Australia Post for the purpose of paying postage for a postal article.

"postal article" means an article of a kind that, under the terms and conditions on which Australia Post supplies postal services, may be carried by post.

"registered charity" means an entity that is registered under the Australian Charities and Not - for - profits Commission Act 2012 as the type of entity mentioned in column 1 of item   1 of the table in subsection   25 - 5(5) of that Act.

"reserved services" means the activities that Australia Post has, because of section   29, the exclusive right to engage in.

"standard postal article" means, subject to the regulations, a postal article that satisfies all of the following criteria:

  (a)   it does not weigh more than 250 grams;

  (b)   it is not more than 5mm thick;

  (c)   its other 2 dimensions form a rectangle:

  (i)   2 of whose sides are shorter than the other sides; and

  (ii)   the shorter sides of which are not more than 122 mm long; and

  (iii)   the longer sides of which are not more than 237 mm long; and

  (iv)   the adjacent sides of which are in the ratio of 1 to at least 1.414.

"subsidiary" has the meaning given by section   6.

"the letter service" means the service supplied by Australia Post under section   27.

"thing" includes a living thing.

"unwritten communication" includes a message, information, or direction to pay an amount of money, that is not in written form.