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LANDS ACQUISITION ACT 1989 - SECT 6 Definitions

LANDS ACQUISITION ACT 1989 - SECT 6

Definitions

    In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Account" means the Lands Acquisition Account continued in existence by section   89A.

"acquiring authority" means:

  (a)   the Commonwealth; or

  (b)   a Commonwealth authority.

"Australia" includes the external Territories.

"authorised person" has the meaning given by section   7.

"authority" does not include:

  (a)   a body politic;

  (b)   an incorporated association or society;

  (c)   an incorporated company; or

  (d)   a body of trustees.

"Commonwealth authority" means an authority:

  (a)   that is incorporated by or under a law of the Commonwealth or by or under a law of a Territory, other than:

  (i)   an enactment as defined by section   3 of the Australian Capital Territory (Self - Government) Act 1988 ;

  (ii)   a law of the Northern Territory ; and

  (b)   that is not declared by the regulations to be an exempt authority.

"compensation claim form" means a form approved by the Minister for the purposes of subsection   67(2).

"Court" or Federal Court means the Federal Court of Australia.

"Crown land" means land the property of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.

"dispose" includes grant or create.

"interest" , in relation to land (including overseas land), means:

  (a)   any legal or equitable estate or interest in the land;

  (b)   a restriction on the use of the land, whether or not annexed to other land; or

  (c)   any other right (including a right under an option and a right of redemption), charge, power or privilege over or in connection with the land or an interest in the land;

and includes the interest of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory in Crown land.

"land" means land in Australia .

"mortgage" means a security over an interest in land (including overseas land) securing the payment or repayment of money.

"mortgagee" , in relation to a mortgage, means the person who is or was entitled to receive payment or repayment of the money secured by the mortgage.

"mortgage interest" means the interest in land of a mortgagee under a mortgage.

"mortgagor" , in relation to a mortgage, means the person who is or was the owner of the interest in land subject to the mortgage.

"overseas land" means land outside Australia .

"planning instrument" means an instrument made under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that relates to town planning or use of land.

"pre-acquisition declaration" means a declaration under subsection   22(1).

"public park" means land that, under a law of a State or Territory, is dedicated or reserved, or is vested in trustees, as a public park or national park or otherwise for the purposes of public recreation.

"public purpose" means a purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power to make laws and includes, in relation to land in a Territory, any purpose in relation to the Territory.

"Tribunal" means the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

"unreviewable pre-acquisition declaration" means a pre - acquisition declaration that includes a statement under subsection   22(6).