Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00809:section:3:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00809
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 3924–6714

3  Interpretation
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
appeal includes:
 (a) a proceeding of the same nature as an appeal; and
 (b) a review or rehearing, or a proceeding of the same nature as a review or rehearing.
appoint includes re‑appoint.
Associate Director means the Associate Director of Public Prosecutions.
authority of the Commonwealth means:
 (a) an authority, institution or other body (other than a society, association or incorporated company) established for a public purpose by or under a law of the Commonwealth;
 (b) a society, association or incorporated company in which the Commonwealth, or an authority, institution or other body of the kind referred to in paragraph (a), has a controlling interest; or
 (c) a person who holds:
 (i) an office or position established by or under a law of the Commonwealth;
 (ii) an appointment made under a law of the Commonwealth; or
 (iii) an appointment made, otherwise than under a law of the Commonwealth, by the Governor‑General, by a Minister, or by any other person on behalf of the Executive Government of the Commonwealth or the Administration of a Territory.
CSC (short for Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation) has the same meaning as in the Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Act 2011.
Director means the Director of Public Prosecutions.
law of the Commonwealth includes a law of a Territory, but does not include:
 (aa) the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988;
 (a) the Northern Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1978;
 (c) a law made under, or continued in force by, an Act referred to in paragraph (aa) or (a).
legal practitioner means a person:
 (a) whose name is on the roll of barristers and solicitors of the High Court kept in pursuance of rules in force under the Judiciary Act 1903; or
 (b) whose name is on the roll of barristers, of solicitors, of barristers and solicitors or of legal practitioners of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory.
Office means the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions established by subsection 5(1).
Special Prosecutor means a person holding office as, or acting as, a Special Prosecutor under the Special Prosecutors Act 1982.
State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
Territory does not include the Australian Capital Territory or the Northern Territory.
 (2) A reference in this Act to an appointment to prosecute offences against the laws of a State includes a reference to a commission or authority to prosecute such offences.
 (3) A provision of this Act that confers on the Director a function or power in relation to a prosecution or proceeding (including a proceeding for the taking of a civil remedy) instituted by another person applies in relation to such a