New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIES ASSISTANCE ACT 1966 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act, unless the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"Area" has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993 .
"Business undertaking" means a natural person who or a partnership, trust or corporation which is carrying on or proposing to carry on any industrial or business activity.
"Council", in relation to a local authority, has the same meaning as it has in the Local Government Act 1993 .
"Country industry" means any activity, craft, occupation or calling carried on or to be carried on in any part of the State outside the County of Cumberland or the area of the City of Newcastle or the City of Wollongong for the purpose of manufacturing, processing or distributing by wholesale any goods or for a purpose approved by the Ministerial Corporation.
"Director" means the Director, Department of Industrial Development and Decentralisation or the person for the time being acting in that office.
"Ministerial Corporation" means the corporation constituted under section 34H.
"Prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or the regulations.
"prescribed institution" means:

(a) any institution engaged in educational, training or research activities,

(b) a trade or industrial union registered under any Act or an organisation of employees registered as an organisation under the Industrial Relations Act 1988 of the Commonwealth, or

(c) any other prescribed person or body of persons (not being a business undertaking).

"Regulations" means regulations under this Act.

(2) A reference in this Act to a business undertaking includes a reference to any person or body of persons who or which is, in the opinion of the Minister, related to or associated with the business undertaking.

(2A) 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.