Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00157:section:3:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00157
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 2/8)
Character Range: 26929–29664

register or other record of information or any accounts or accounting records, however compiled, recorded or stored, and also includes any document.
business day means a day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday or bank holiday in the place concerned.
charge means a charge created in any way and includes a mortgage or an agreement to give or execute a charge or mortgage, whether upon demand or otherwise.
civil penalty provision: a subsection of this Act (or a section of this Act that is not divided into subsections) is a civil penalty provision if:
 (a) the words "civil penalty" and one or more amounts in penalty units are set out at the foot of the subsection (or section); or
 (b) another provision of this Act specifies that the subsection (or section) is a civil penalty provision.
corporate agent means a body corporate that is appointed under section 118 as an agent in Australia for the purpose of that section.
data processing device means any article or material (for example, a disk) from which information is capable of being reproduced with or without the aid of any other article or device.
debenture includes debenture stock, bonds, notes and any other document evidencing or acknowledging indebtedness of a body corporate in respect of money that is or may be deposited with or lent to the body corporate, whether constituting a charge on property of the body corporate or not, but does not include:
 (a) for the purposes of a particular provision of this Act—a document prescribed for the purposes of that provision; or
 (b) for the purposes of this Act generally—a prescribed document.
declared general insurer means a general insurer specified in a declaration under section 62ZZC as a general insurer in relation to which Division 3 of Part VC applies.
direction under this Act means a direction under any of the following provisions:
 (a) section 17;
 (b) section 27;
 (c) section 49R;
 (d) section 74;
 (e) section 76;
 (f) section 78;
 (g) section 103B;
 (h) section 104.
director, in relation to a body corporate, includes a member of the governing body of the body corporate.
external administrator means any of the following:
 (a) a liquidator;
 (b) a receiver, manager, managing controller, receiver and manager or other controller (other than a judicial manager or an Insurance Act statutory manager);
 (c) a voluntary administrator or administrator of a deed of a company arrangement or a scheme manager.
Expressions used in this definition have the same meanings as they have in the Corporations Act 2001.
Federal Court means the Federal Court of Australia.
Finance Minister means the Minister who administers the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
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