Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800:section:5:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00800
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 5 (pt 4/21)
Character Range: 48311–51055

Customs Act 1901.
committee of management of an unincorporated association means a body (however described) that governs, manages or conducts the affairs of the association.
Convention Against Torture means the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment done at New York on 10 December 1984.
Note: The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is in Australian Treaty Series 1989 No. 21 ([1989] ATS 21) and could in 2014 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
Coral Sea area has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.
Covenant means the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, a copy of the English text of which is set out in Schedule 2 to the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986.
crime includes any offence.
criminal history information means information about an individual's criminal history, and includes information about:
 (a) any charge against the individual for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory, whether or not the individual has been found to have committed the offence; and
 (b) any finding that the individual committed such an offence, whether or not the individual has been convicted of the offence; and
 (c) any conviction of the individual of such an offence, whether or not the conviction is spent (however described) under:
 (i) Part VIIC of the Crimes Act 1914; or
 (ii) a law of a State or Territory; and
 (d) any other result of a proceeding for the prosecution of the individual for such an offence.
criminal justice visa has the meaning given by section 38.
cruel or inhuman treatment or punishment means an act or omission by which:
 (a) severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person; or
 (b) pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person so long as, in all the circumstances, the act or omission could reasonably be regarded as cruel or inhuman in nature;
but does not include an act or omission:
 (c) that is not inconsistent with Article 7 of the Covenant; or
 (d) arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions that are not inconsistent with the Articles of the Covenant.
data base (except in Part 4A) means a discrete body of information stored by means of a computer.
Note: Section 336A defines this term differently for the purposes of Part 4A.
de facto partner has the meaning given by section 5CB.
degrading treatment or punishment means an act or omission that causes, and is intended to cause, extreme humiliation which is unreasonable,