Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS ACT 1953 - SECT 2

                   In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Act" does not include an enactment.

"criminal laws" means any laws (whether written, unwritten, substantive or procedural) relating to offences, whether indictable or not, including laws about:

                     (a)  the investigation of offences; and

                     (b)  the punishment of offenders, including the penalties or loss of benefits to which offenders are liable; and

                     (c)  the forfeiture and confiscation of the proceeds of crime;

and any laws providing for the interpretation of such laws.

"Enactment has the same meaning as in the Australian Capital Territory" (Self-Government) Act 1988 .

"Ordinance" means an Ordinance made under this Act.

"the Territory" means the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands.