Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00028:section:54:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00028
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 54 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 33502–36584

54  Interpretation
  In this Act:
Account means the Natural Heritage Trust of Australia Account continued in existence by section 4.
accounting transfer purpose has the meaning given by section 18.
agriculture includes:
 (a) the cultivation of land; or
 (b) the maintenance of animals for the purposes of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase; or
 (c) fishing or aquaculture operations; or
 (d) forest operations; or
 (e) horticulture.
Agriculture Department means the Department administered by the Agriculture Minister.
Agriculture Minister means the Minister administering Part 2 of the Natural Resources Management (Financial Assistance) Act 1992.
Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes:
 (a) the external Territories; and
 (b) the exclusive economic zone.
environmental protection has the meaning given by section 15.
exclusive economic zone means the exclusive economic zone (within the meaning of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973), adjacent to the coast of Australia or the coast of an external Territory.
Finance Minister means the Minister administering the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
horticultural product means:
 (a) fruits, including processed fruits; and
 (b) vegetables, including:
 (i) processed vegetables; and
 (ii) mushrooms and other edible fungi; and
 (iii) processed mushrooms and other processed edible fungi; and
 (c) nuts, including processed nuts; and
 (d) nursery products, including:
 (i) trees, shrubs, plants, seeds, bulbs, corms and tubers; and
 (ii) propagating material and plant tissue cultures, grown for ornamental purposes or for producing fruits, vegetables, nuts or cut flowers and foliage; and
 (e) cut flowers and foliage, including processed cut flowers and foliage; and
 (f) products prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
horticulture includes the production of a horticultural product.
Natural Heritage Ministerial Board means the Natural Heritage Ministerial Board established by section 40.
natural resources management has the meaning given by section 17.
proceeds of the sale of shares in Telstra includes:
 (a) an amount received by the Commonwealth directly or indirectly from:
 (i) the sale‑scheme trustee (within the meaning of the Telstra Corporation Act 1991); or
 (ii) an investor in Telstra;
  under a Telstra sale scheme (within the meaning of that Act); and
 (b) an amount received by the Commonwealth by way of the redemption of redeemable preference shares in Telstra held by the Commonwealth, where the redemption was in accordance with a Telstra sale scheme (within the meaning of the Telstra Corporation Act 1991).
State includes the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.
sustainable agriculture has the meaning given by section 16.
Telstra has the same meaning as in the Telstra Corporation Act 1991.
waste minimisation includes reduction of use, re‑use and recycling.

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