Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

COMMONWEALTH PLACES (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1970 - SECT 3

                   In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"authority" , in relation to a State, means:

                     (a)  the Governor, a Minister or a member of the Executive Council of the State;

                     (b)  a court of the State;

                     (c)  a person who holds office as a member of a court of a State;

                     (d)  a body created by or under the law of the State; and

                     (e)  an officer or employee of the State or of a body referred to in the last preceding paragraph.

"Commonwealth place" means a place (not being the seat of government) with respect to which the Parliament, by virtue of section 52 of the Constitution, has, subject to the Constitution, exclusive power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth.

"the applied provisions" means the provisions that, in accordance with the next succeeding section, apply or are to be deemed to have applied.

"the laws of a State , in relation to a State, means the laws in force in that State, whether written or unwritten, and instruments made or having effect under those laws, but does not include a law of the Commonwealth, whether written or unwritten, or an instrument made or having effect under such a law, and law of a State" has a corresponding meaning.