New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WASTE RECYCLING AND PROCESSING CORPORATION ACT 2001 - SECT 3

3 Definitions

(1) In this Act:
"assets" means any legal or equitable estate or interest (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) in real or personal property of any description (including money), and includes securities, choses in action and documents.
"Corporation" means the statutory State owned corporation constituted by this Act.
"energy recovery" means a process by which energy, such as heat, electrical energy or kinetic energy, is recovered in a useful form from waste.
"exercise" a function includes perform a duty.
"function" includes a power, authority or duty.
"liabilities" means any liabilities, debts or obligations (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent).
"Ministerial Holding Corporation" means the Ministerial Holding Corporation constituted under section 37B of the State Owned Corporations Act 1989 .
"principles of ecologically sustainable development" means the principles of ecologically sustainable development contained in section 6 (2) of the Protection of the Environment Administration Act 1991 .
"rights" means any rights, powers, privileges or immunities (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent).
"secondary resource" means any resource (including energy in any useful form) that is recovered from waste as a result of secondary resource recovery.
"secondary resource facility" means any premises used for secondary resource recovery.
"secondary resource recovery" means a process by which a resource is recovered from waste, such as by re-using, recycling or reprocessing waste, and includes energy recovery.
"waste" has the same meaning as in the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 .
"waste facility" means any premises used for the reprocessing, sorting or disposal of waste, and includes a landfill site.
"Waste Recycling and Processing Service" means the corporation constituted by the Waste Recycling and Processing Service Act 1970 with the name “Waste Recycling and Processing Service of New South Wales”.

(2) Words and expressions used in this Act and also the State Owned Corporations Act 1989 have the same meanings in this Act as they have in that Act.