CHRISTMAS ISLAND ACT 1958 - SECT 4 Interpretation

CHRISTMAS ISLAND ACT 1958 - SECT 4

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

"amended" : for when an applied Western Australian law is amended , see subsection   8GA(4).

"applied Western Australian law" means a Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under section   8A.

"authority" includes a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose.

"Christmas Island" means the Island of that name situated in the Indian Ocean in or about latitude 10Ëš30x south and longitude 105Ëš40x east.

"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 Worker's 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.

"jurisdiction" includes powers.

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

"Ordinance" means an Ordinance made under this Act.

"power" includes a function or duty, and, in that context exercise means perform.

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

"Registrar" means the Registrar, or the Deputy Registrar, of the Supreme Court.

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

"State" includes a Territory other than the Territory.

"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 subsection   2(2).

"the Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of the Territory.

"the Territory" means the Territory of Christmas Island .

"Western Australian law" : see subsection   8A(6).

  (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.