ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 202 Interpretation

ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION ACT 1989 No. 150 of 1989 - SECT 202

202. In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

"ADC Act" means the Aboriginal Development Commission Act 1980;

"assets" means property of every kind, and, without limiting the generality of
the foregoing, includes:

   (a)  choses in action; and

   (b)  rights, interests and claims of every kind in or to property, whether
        arising under or by virtue of an instrument or otherwise, and whether
        liquidated or unliquidated, certain or contingent, accrued or
        accruing;

"authorised officer" means the Minister, the Chief Executive Officer or a
member of the staff of the new Commission authorised by the Minister in
writing for the purposes of this Part;

"commencement" means the commencement of this Act;

"liabilities" means liabilities of every kind, and, without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, includes obligations of every kind, whether
arising under or by virtue of an instrument or otherwise, and whether
liquidated or unliquidated, certain or contingent, accrued or accruing;

"new Commission" means the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission;

"old Commission" means the Aboriginal Development Commission;

"old Commission instrument" means an instrument:

   (a)  to which the old Commission was a party;

   (b)  that was given to or in favour of the old Commission;

   (c)  in which a reference is made to the old Commission; or

   (d)  under which money is, or may become, payable, or any other property is
        to be, or may become liable to be, transferred to or by the old
        Commission; being an instrument subsisting immediately before the
        commencement;

"old Department" means the Department of Aboriginal Affairs.