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DANGEROUS GOODS ACT 1975 - SECT 4

Definitions

4 Definitions

In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
"Authority" means the WorkCover Authority constituted under the WorkCover Administration Act 1989 .
"container" includes any receptacle and any covering.
"convey", in relation to dangerous goods, includes carry, load, unload, transfer, transmit, pump or discharge the goods.
"court" means a Local Court.
"dangerous goods" means any substance or article prescribed as dangerous goods for the purposes of this Act.
"director" of a corporation means a person who is a director of the corporation within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.
"explosive" means any dangerous goods prescribed as an explosive for the purposes of this Act.
"flash point", in relation to any substance, means the lowest temperature at which the substance, when tested in a prescribed type of apparatus in a prescribed manner, liberates a vapour at a rate sufficient to produce an explosive mixture with the air that is in immediate contact with the substance.
"inspector" means an inspector of dangerous goods appointed under section 6.
"licence" means a licence under this Act.
"manufacture", in relation to any explosive, includes the blending together of any substances to make the explosive, the breaking up of the explosive and the re-making, altering or repairing of the explosive.
"permit" means a permit under this Act or the regulations.
"pipeline" means any:

(a) pipe, or
(b) system of pipes,
less than 10 kilometres in length, other than a pipe or system of pipes constructed or required to be constructed under, or under an authority granted under, any Act other than this Act.
"premises" means any land, building or enclosed place, or part thereof, or any portable structure.
"regulations" means regulations made under this Act.
"safety cartridges" means cartridges for guns, rifles, pistols, revolvers or other small arms, the case of which can be extracted from the small arm after firing, and which are so enclosed as to prevent any explosion in one cartridge being communicated to other cartridges.
"sell" includes:
(a) barter or exchange,
(b) offer or expose for sale, barter or exchange,
(c) cause or suffer to be sold, bartered, exchanged, offered for sale or exposed for sale,
(d) attempt to sell, barter, exchange, offer for sale or expose for sale, and
(e) except in section 13:
(i) agree to sell, barter or exchange,
(ii) send, forward or deliver for or on sale or for barter or exchange,
(iii) have in possession for sale, barter or exchange,
(iv) cause or suffer to be sent, forwarded or delivered for or on sale or for barter or exchange, and
(v) attempt to forward or deliver for or on sale or for barter or exchange.
"substance" includes any gas, any liquid, any gas mixture and any liquid mixture.
"vehicle" includes an aircraft.
"vessel" means any kind of vessel used in navigation.


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