Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00551:section:3:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00551
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 6870–9676

3  Interpretation
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
aircraft means a machine or apparatus that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air or from buoyancy, but does not include a hovercraft.
animal includes:
 (a) a native bird, a native invertebrate and a native seal; and
 (b) an egg, part of an egg and an eggshell; and
 (c) a dead animal and part of a dead animal (but not something manufactured from a dead animal or from part of a dead animal).
another Contracting Party means a Contracting Party to the Treaty other than Australia.
Antarctic means the area south of 60° south latitude, including all ice shelves in the area.
Antarctic specially managed area means an area declared to be an Antarctic specially managed area under section 8.
Antarctic specially protected area means an area declared to be an Antarctic specially protected area under section 8.
article includes a substance or a mixture of substances.
Australia includes all the Territories.
Australian expedition means an expedition organized by one or more of any of the following:
 (a) an Australian organization;
 (b) an Australian citizen;
 (c) a person resident or domiciled in Australia.
Australian national means:
 (a) an Australian citizen; and
 (b) a body corporate that is incorporated in Australia or carries on its activities mainly in Australia.
Australian organization means:
 (a) a corporation that is incorporated in Australia or whose activities are carried on principally in Australia; or
 (b) an unincorporated body or association the majority of whose members are Australian citizens or domiciled in Australia.
Australian property means property that:
 (a) in the case of an aircraft or vessel—is in Australian control or is registered under regulations made under the Civil Aviation Act 1988 or, as the case may be, registered in Australia under an Act or Imperial Act relating to the registration of ships that is applicable throughout the whole of Australia (not being an Act or Imperial Act relating to the registration of ships for a particular purpose or purposes only); or
 (b) in any other case—is in Australian control.
basic environmental principles means the environmental principles set out in Article 3 of the Madrid Protocol.
CAMLR Convention means the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, a copy of the English text of which is set out in the Schedule to the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Conservation Act 1981.
CEMP site means a monitoring site:
 (a) established for the purposes of the Ecosystem Monitoring Program conducted by the Parties to the CAMLR Convention; and
 (b) the management plan for which has been adopted by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in accordance with