New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FILM AND TELEVISION OFFICE ACT 1988 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"Board" means the Board of the Office.
"chief executive officer" means the chief executive officer of the Office holding office as such under Chapter 1A of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002 .
"film" means a recording in or on any material from which images, with or without associated sounds, may be produced and includes a film made for television or for any other means of dissemination.
"making", in relation to a film, includes the preparation of film sets, the writing of film scripts and the doing of all other things necessary to enable the making of the film to commence.
"Office" means the New South Wales Film and Television Office constituted by section 4.
"producer", in relation to a film, means the person by whom arrangements necessary for production of the film are undertaken.
"sound recording" means a recording in or on any material from which sounds may be reproduced.

(2) In this Act:

(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and

(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.

(3) Notes included in this Act do not form part of this Act.