Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152:clause:3_287:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00152
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 3 cl 287 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 614935–617665

287  Interpretation
 (1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:
associated entity means an entity that is registered as an associated entity under section 287L.
Note: See section 287H for when an entity is required to be registered as an associated entity.
Australian resident means a person who holds a permanent visa under the Migration Act 1958.
broadcast includes televise.
candidate has a meaning affected by subsection (9).
credit card means:
 (a) any article of a kind commonly known as a credit card; or
 (b) any similar article intended for use in obtaining cash, goods or services on credit;
and includes any article of a kind that persons carrying on business commonly issue to their customers or prospective customers for use in obtaining goods or services from those persons on credit.
disclosure threshold means $13,800.
Note: This amount is indexed under section 321A.
disposition of property means any conveyance, transfer, assignment, settlement, delivery, payment or other alienation of property, and includes:
 (a) the allotment of shares in a company;
 (b) the creation of a trust in property;
 (c) the grant or creation of any lease, mortgage, charge, servitude, licence, power, partnership or interest in property;
 (d) the release, discharge, surrender, forfeiture or abandonment, at law or in equity, of any debt, contract or chose in action, or of any interest in property;
 (e) the exercise by a person of a general power of appointment of property in favour of any other person; and
 (f) any transaction entered into by any person with intent thereby to diminish, directly or indirectly, the value of the person's own property and to increase the value of the property of any other person.
division, in relation to a State branch of a political party, includes a branch of the State branch of the political party.
election means an election of a member of the House of Representatives or an election of senators for a State or Territory.
election period, in relation to an election, means the period commencing on the day of issue of the writ for the election and ending at the latest time on polling day at which an elector in Australia could enter a polling booth for the purpose of casting a vote in the election.
electoral expenditure has the meaning given by section 287AB.
entity means:
 (a) an incorporated or unincorporated body;
 (b) the trustee of a trust.
federal account means an account where:
 (a) the only amounts deposited into the account are amounts to be used only for a federal purpose; and
 (b) the only amounts withdrawn or transferred from the account are amounts:
 (i) withdrawn or transferred for a federal purpose; or
 (ii) transferred to another federal account.