Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00210:section:3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2019C00210
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3
Character Range: 3600–5731

3  Interpretation
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
business law means a law that regulates, or relates to the regulation of, business or persons engaged in business.
Commonwealth regulator means an authority of the Commonwealth that:
 (a) has functions relating to the administration or enforcement of a business law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; and
 (b) is prescribed for the purposes of this definition.
foreign business law means:
 (a) a business law of a foreign country; or
 (b) a law, or rules or regulations (however described), that an international business regulator administers or enforces.
foreign regulator means:
 (a) the government of a foreign country or a part of a foreign country; or
 (b) an agency of such a government having functions relating to the administration or enforcement of a foreign business law; or
 (c) a person or body that is certified by such a government as having such functions in the country or part of a country that it governs; or
 (d) an international business regulator.
foreign request. means a request under section 6.
international business regulator means a body that satisfies the following conditions:
 (a) the body has functions relating to the regulation, in 2 or more countries, of business, or persons engaged in business;
 (b) those functions are conferred on the body by:
 (i) a law or laws in force in those countries; or
 (ii) a treaty, or other international agreement, to which those countries are parties; or
 (iii) without limiting subparagraphs (i) and (ii)—a parliament or other body established by or under a treaty, or other international agreement, to which those countries are parties.
 (2) For the purposes of this Act:
 (a) a colony, territory or protectorate of a foreign country; and
 (b) a territory for the international relations of which a foreign country is responsible;
is taken, unless the contrary intention appears, to be part of that foreign country.
 (3) A reference in this Act to a law of a foreign country includes a reference to a law of a part of, or a law in force in a part of, the foreign country.