Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00175:section:4:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00175
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 11/11)
Character Range: 41497–43238

this Act (except in section 28 or Part III, V, VI, VII or VIII) to Comcare is, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to that corporation.
 (11) A reference in this Act to a claimant is, in relation to any time after the death of the claimant, a reference to his or her legal personal representative.
 (12) A reference in this Act to the institution of a proceeding under Part VI in respect of a reviewable decision is a reference to the making of an application to the Administrative Review Tribunal for review of that decision.
 (13) For the purposes of this Act, an employee who is under the influence of alcohol or a drug (other than a drug prescribed for the employee by a legally qualified medical practitioner or dentist and used by the employee in accordance with that prescription) shall be taken to be guilty of serious and wilful misconduct.
 (14) In spite of the definition of principal officer in subsection (1), if the Australian Capital Territory is, or has ceased to be, a Commonwealth authority for the purposes of this Act, the following rules have effect:
 (a) if there is in force a written declaration by the Minister, made at the written request of the Chief Minister for the Territory, that a specified person is to be taken to be the principal officer of the Territory, this Act has effect accordingly;
 (b) if there is no such declaration in force, the Chief Minister of the Territory is to be taken to be the principal officer of the Territory.
 (15) If:
 (a) a body corporate ceases to be a Commonwealth authority; and
 (b) the body corporate continues in existence;
the principal officer of the body corporate is to be determined as if the body corporate had not ceased to be a Commonwealth authority.