Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01235:reg:5:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01235
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 5 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 11321–14212

5  Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
(a) asset;
(b) Australian business;
(c) Australian land;
(d) entity;
(e) foreign person;
(f) interest;
(g) security;
(h) share.
  In this instrument:
Act means the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975.
ADI has the same meaning as in the Banking Act 1959.
Note: ADI is short for authorised deposit‑taking institution.
aggregate interest of a specified percentage in an unincorporated limited partnership has the meaning given by subsection 17(3).
agreement country or region means any of the following countries or regions:
 (a) the United States of America;
 (b) New Zealand;
 (c) Chile;
 (d) Japan;
 (e) the Republic of Korea;
 (f) China;
 (fa) Peru;
 (g) Singapore;
 (h) a country (other than Australia) for which the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans‑Pacific Partnership, done at Santiago on 8 March 2018, is in force;
 (i) the region of Hong Kong, China;
 (j) the United Kingdom.
Note: The Agreement mentioned in paragraph (h) is in Australian Treaty Series [2018] ATS 23 and could in 2019 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
agreement country or region investor means an entity (within the ordinary meaning of the term) that is:
 (a) an enterprise or a national of a country that is an agreement country or region; or
 (b) an enterprise or a resident of a region that is an agreement country or region;
(other than a foreign government investor).
agribusiness: see section 12.
Note: Agribusiness is defined in section 4 of the Act.
agricultural land corporation has the meaning given by subsection 13(2).
agricultural land trust has the meaning given by subsection 13(3).
Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification Codes means the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification Codes, as in force from time to time, published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Australian land corporation has the meaning given by subsection 13(4).
Australian land trust has the meaning given by subsection 13(5).
Australian media business has the meaning given by section 13A.
businesses or entities certificate has the meaning given by section 42.
class value has the meaning given by subsections 21(3) and (5).
consideration has a meaning affected by subsection 14(2).
consideration for the acquisition or issue of a class of securities has the meaning given by subsection 21(4).
defence and intelligence personnel means:
 (a) a member of the Australian Defence Force; or
 (b) in relation to the Defence Department—the following:
 (i) an APS employee in the Department;
 (ii) a consultant engaged by the Secretary of the Department on behalf of the Commonwealth;
 (iii) a person whose services are made available to the Department under an arrangement entered