New South Wales Consolidated Acts

DAMS SAFETY ACT 1978 - SECT 4

4 Definitions

(1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"chairperson" means the chairperson of the Committee appointed under section 9.
"Committee" means the Dams Safety Committee constituted under section 7.
"functions" includes powers, authorities and duties.
"member" means a member of the Committee.
"owner", in relation to a dam, means any person or public authority who, whether solely or with some other person or public authority, owns, controls, operates, manages or maintains the dam and includes any person or public authority who, whether solely or with some other person or public authority, proposes to build a dam.
"prescribed dam" means a dam, or proposed dam, for the time being specified or described in Schedule 1.
"public authority" means any public or local authority constituted by or under an Act other than this Act.
"regulation" means a regulation made under this Act.

(2) A reference in this Act to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, the performance of that duty.