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(e) a member of the Police Force of the Australian Capital Territory; or
              (f) a person employed by the Commonwealth (other than a person referred to in a preceding paragraph of this definition) who is included in a class of persons employed by the Commonwealth declared by the regulations to be a class of persons to whom this paragraph applies;
          'Ordinance', in relation to the Australian Capital Territory, includes a law of a State that applies, or the provisions of a law of a State that apply, in the Territory by virtue of an enactment;
          'prescribed authority' means a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose by or under an enactment, being a body—
              (a) that is declared by the regulations to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of this Act; or
              (b) that is included in a class of bodies so established declared by the regulations to be a class of prescribed authorities for the purposes of this Act;
          'public moneys' means revenue, loan, trust and other moneys received or held by any person for or on behalf of the Commonwealth or a prescribed authority, and includes all moneys forming part of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the Loan Fund or the Trust Fund;";
      (c) by adding "or a prescribed authority" at the end of the definition of "stores";
      (d) by omitting the definition of "the Commonwealth Public Account"; and
      (e) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:
    "(2) A reference in this Act to an Appropriation Act for a financial year shall be read as a reference to an Act (whether cited as an Appropriation Act or otherwise) for the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the service of that financial year or for specified expenditure in respect of that financial year.
    "(3) For the purposes of this Act, where a person collects, receives or holds a cheque or other instrument ordering or authorizing the payment of moneys, being an instrument of a kind that may be lodged with a bank for the purpose of enabling the bank to collect the moneys so payable and credit those moneys to an account with the bank, the person—
          (a) shall be deemed to have collected or received, or to hold, as the case may be, an amount of moneys equal to the sum so payable; and
          (b) if the moneys so payable would, if they had been collected, received or held by him as moneys, be public moneys, shall be deemed to have collected or received, or to hold, as the case may be, an amount of public moneys equal to the sum so payable.
    "(4) In this Act, unless