Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00604:section:8:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00604
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 8 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 11975–14730

8  Definitions
  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
accident has the meaning given by section 85.
accident site has the meaning given by section 98.
accident site premises has the meaning given by section 98.
aircraft means any machine or craft that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air, other than the reactions of the air against the earth's surface.
Astronauts and Objects Agreement means the Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space, done at London, Moscow and Washington on 22 April 1968, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.
Note: The Agreement is in Australian Treaty Series 1986 No. 8 ([1986] ATS 8) and could in 2018 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (http://www.austlii.edu.au).
Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.
Australian aircraft means an aircraft registered in Australia.
Australian high power rocket permit means a permit granted under section 38.
Australian launch permit means a permit granted under section 28.
Australian national means:
 (a) an Australian citizen; or
 (aa) an Australian resident; or
 (b) a body incorporated by or under a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory; or
 (c) the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
Australian resident means an individual who resides in Australia and is the holder (within the meaning of the Migration Act 1958) of a permanent visa (within the meaning of that Act).
Australian territory means the following:
 (a) the territory of Australia and of each external Territory;
 (b) the territorial sea of Australia;
 (c) the waters of the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea of Australia, but not within the limits of a State or internal Territory;
 (d) the territorial sea of each external Territory;
 (e) the waters of the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea of each external Territory, but not within the limits of the external Territory.
authorisation certificate means a certificate issued under section 46U.
Chicago Convention means:
 (a) the Convention on International Civil Aviation done at Chicago on 7 December 1944, whose English text is set out in Schedule 1 to the Air Navigation Act 1920; and
 (b) the Protocols amending that Convention that are referred to in subsection 3A(2) of that Act, whose English texts are set out in Schedules to that Act; and
 (c) the Annexes to that Convention that relate to international standards and recommended practices and that are adopted in accordance with that Convention.
civil penalty provision has the same meaning as in the Regulatory Powers Act.
damage:
 (a) in relation to