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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 1986 - SECT 22 Definitions

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ACT 1986 - SECT 22

Definitions

    (1)     In this Part—

"disaster area" means that part or those parts of Victoria in which a state of disaster is declared under section 23(1) to exist;

"subordinate instrument" has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 .

S. 22(2) inserted by No. 104/1997 s. 44, amended by No. 6/2010 s. 203(1)(Sch. 6 item 18) (as amended by No. 45/2010 s. 22).

    (2)     For the purposes of this Part, a rail corporation within the meaning of the Rail Management Act 1996 is deemed to be a government agency.

S. 22(3) inserted by No. 104/1997 s. 44.

    (3)     Subsection (2) does not prevent a rail corporation deemed by that subsection to be a government agency from receiving compensation under section 24 for the taking and use of its property.