Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00838:section:2b:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00838
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 2B (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 12211–15087

federal jurisdiction means any court when exercising federal jurisdiction, and includes a federal court.
court of summary jurisdiction means any justice of the peace, or magistrate of a State or Territory, sitting as a court of summary jurisdiction.
de facto partner: see section 2D.
document means any record of information, and includes:
 (a) anything on which there is writing; and
 (b) anything on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them; and
 (c) anything from which sounds, images or writings can be reproduced with or without the aid of anything else; and
 (d) a map, plan, drawing or photograph.
estate includes any estate, interest, charge, right, title, claim demand, lien or encumbrance at law or in equity.
exclusive economic zone has the same meaning as in the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973.
Executive Council means the Federal Executive Council.
external Territory means a Territory, other than an internal Territory, where an Act makes provision for the government of the Territory as a Territory.
Note: See also section 15B.
federal court means the High Court or any court created by the Parliament.
financial year means a period of 12 months starting on 1 July.
foreign country means any country (whether or not an independent sovereign state) outside Australia and the external Territories.
Gazette means the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette.
Government Printer includes any person printing for the Government of the Commonwealth.
Note: See also section 17A.
Governor of a State: see section 16B.
Governor‑General: see section 16A.
High Court means the High Court of Australia.
individual means a natural person.
insolvent under administration has the same meaning as in the Corporations Act 2001.
internal Territory means the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory or the Jervis Bay Territory.
Jervis Bay Territory means the Territory referred to in the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915.
judge has a meaning affected by section 16BA.
justice of the peace includes a justice of the peace for a State or part of a State or for a Territory.
land includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, of any tenure or description, whatever may be the estate or interest in them.
law of the Commonwealth: see section 2H.
legislative instrument has the same meaning as in the Legislation Act 2003.
Magistrate: see subsections 16C(2) and (3).
Minister or Minister of State means one of the Ministers of State for the Commonwealth.
Note: See also section 19.
modifications, in relation to a law, includes additions, omissions and substitutions.
month: see section 2G.
Northern Territory means the Northern Territory of Australia.
notifiable instrument has the same meaning as in the Legislation Act 2003.
oath includes affirmation, declaration