Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS ACT 1955 - SECT 4

             (1)  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"constable" means:

                     (a)  a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police; or

                     (b)  an officer or special officer of the police force of the Territory.

"court officer of Western Australia" means a person holding, or performing the functions or duties of, any of the following offices:

                     (a)  any of the following offices in a court of Western Australia:

                              (i)  Judge;

                             (ii)  Magistrate (however described);

                            (iii)  Master;

                            (iv)  Registrar (however described);

                             (v)  Clerk (however described);

                            (vi)  Sheriff (however described);

                           (vii)  Bailiff (however described); or

                     (b)  any of the following offices in the Family Court of Western Australia:

                              (i)  Marshal;

                             (ii)  Director of Court Counselling;

                            (iii)  Collector of Maintenance; or

                     (c)  the office of Chairman, Deputy Chairman or nominee member of the Workers' Compensation Board of Western Australia; or

                     (d)  any other office in respect of a court of Western Australia, being an office specified in the regulations.

"court of Western Australia" means any of the following courts or tribunals:

                     (a)  the Supreme Court of Western Australia;

                     (b)  the District Court of Western Australia;

                     (c)  the Family Court of Western Australia;

                     (d)  a Court of Petty Sessions of Western Australia;

                     (e)  a Local Court of Western Australia;

                      (f)  a coroners' court of Western Australia;

                     (g)  the Children's Court of Western Australia;

                     (h)  the Workers' Compensation Board of Western Australia;

                      (i)  any other court or tribunal specified in the regulations.

"indictment court" means a court established by a law of the Territory (whether before or after the commencement of this definition) in which trials on indictment of offences against laws in force in the Territory may be conducted.

"jurisdiction" includes powers or functions.

"laws of the Territory or laws in force in the Territory" means the laws in force in the Territory as mentioned in section 7A.

"Ordinance" means an Ordinance made under this Act.

"prison" includes a lock-up or other place of lawful detention.

"Registrar" , in relation to an indictment court, means the registrar, or a deputy registrar, of that court.

"Sheriff" means the Sheriff, or a Deputy Sheriff, of the Territory.

"State" includes a Territory other than the Territory.

"Supreme Court of the Territory" means the Supreme Court established by the Supreme Court Ordinance 1955 of the Territory.

"the Islands" means the Cocos or Keeling Islands situated in the Indian Ocean in or about latitude 12°5x south and longitude 96°53x east, including the Northern Island otherwise called North Keeling Island.

"the police force of the Territory" includes any police force empowered to provide police services under a law in force in the Territory.

"the proclaimed date" means the date fixed by Proclamation under section 2.

"the Territory" means the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

             (2)  In this Act, a reference to an Act is a reference to the whole or a part of that Act, or to the whole or a part of a law made under that Act.