Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00514:section:7:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00514
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 1/8)
Character Range: 25170–27978

7  Definitions
  In this Act:
Aboriginal land council, for an area of land, means a body corporate that:
 (a) is established under an Act of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory for the purpose of holding, for the benefit of Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders:
 (i) title to land vested in it by or under that Act; or
 (ii) an estate or interest in land granted under that Act; and
 (b) has functions relating to land that under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory is land rights land; and
 (c) consists of Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders who:
 (i) live in an area to which one or more of the body's functions relate; or
 (ii) are registered as traditional owners of land in an area to which one or more of the body's functions relate; or
 (iii) have an association with an area to which one or more of the body's functions relate if the Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islanders are accepted as members of the land council on the basis of that association.
Aboriginal person has the same meaning as in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Act 2005.
activity period of a registered biodiversity project means the activity period identified in the notice of approval of registration under paragraph 15(7)(d), subject to any variation under rules made for the purposes of paragraph 20(1)(c).
alternative assurance agreement: see subsection 104A(2).
area means:
 (a) an area of land; or
 (b) an area of Australian waters; or
 (c) an area that is a combination of land and Australian waters.
audit information has the meaning given by section 124.
audit team leader means a registered greenhouse and energy auditor appointed under any of the following provisions:
 (a) paragraph 12(3)(a);
 (b) paragraph 68(1)(e);
 (c) paragraph 103(1)(d);
 (d) paragraph 103(1)(e);
 (e) paragraph 104(3)(d);
 (f) paragraph 104(3)(e);
 (g) paragraph 121(2)(a);
 (h) subsection 122(1).
Australia, when used in a geographical sense, includes the external Territories.
Australian waters means:
 (a) the territorial sea of Australia; or
 (b) the waters of the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea of Australia; or
 (c) the territorial sea of each external Territory; or
 (d) the waters of the sea on the landward side of the territorial sea of each external Territory; or
 (e) inland waters.
biodiversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources (including terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part) and includes:
 (a) diversity within species and between species; and
 (b) diversity of ecosystems.
biodiversity assessment instrument means an instrument under section 58.

       biodiversity audit means:
           (a) an audit under section 121 or 122; or
           (b) an audit carried