Commonwealth Numbered Acts

OLYMPIC INSIGNIA PROTECTION ACT 1987 No. 27, 1987 - SECT 2

2. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

"Australia", when used in a geographical sense, includes the external
Territories;

"charge" means a charge created in any way and includes a mortgage and an
agreement to give or execute a charge or mortgage, whether upon demand or
otherwise;

"corresponding design", in relation to an artistic work, means a design that,
when applied to an article, results in a reproduction of that work;

"design of the olympic symbol" means the design that, when applied to any
article, results in a reproduction of the olympic symbol;

"Federal Court" means the Federal Court of Australia;

"Federation" means the Australian Olympic Federation Incorporated, being an
association incorporated on 24 April 1985 under the Associations Incorporation
Act 1981 of Victoria;

"monopoly", in relation to a protected design, means the exclusive right to
apply the design to any article to which the design is capable of being
applied;

"olympic motto" means the motto "citius, altius, fortius";

"olympic symbol" means the symbol an outline of which is set out in the
Schedule;

"protected design" means-

   (a)  the design of the olympic symbol; and

   (b)  a registered olympic design;

"protection period", in relation to a registered olympic design, means the
period of 12 years commencing on the day the design was registered, as
extended or reduced under section 11;

"registered olympic design" means a design registered under this Act;

"Registrar" means the Registrar of Designs holding office under the Designs
Act 1906;

"reproduction", in relation to an artistic work, has the same meaning as in
the Copyright Act 1968.

(2) Where, by virtue of regulations in force for the purposes of sub-section
17 (2) of the Designs Act 1906, a design is not capable of being registered
under that Act for an article specified in those regulations, a reference in
this Act to an article does not include a reference to an article so
specified.

(3) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in this Act and
the Designs Act 1906 has the same meaning in this Act as in the Designs Act
1906.