Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00233:section:3:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00233
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 1/4)
Character Range: 6011–8642

3  Definitions
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
ASIC means the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Australian court means:
 (a) the High Court; or
 (b) a court exercising federal jurisdiction; or
 (c) a court of a State or Territory; or
 (d) a judge, justice or arbitrator under an Australian law; or
 (e) a person or body authorised by an Australian law, or by consent of parties, to hear, receive and examine evidence;
and, for the purposes of Part 6, includes a person or body authorised to take or receive evidence, whether on behalf of a court or otherwise and whether or not the person or body is empowered to require the answering of questions or the production of documents.
Australian law means a law (whether written or unwritten) of or in force in the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.
business has a meaning affected by clause 1 of Part 2 of the Dictionary in the Evidence Act 1995.
business record means a document that:
 (a) is or forms part of the records belonging to or kept by a person, body or organisation in the course of, or for the purposes of, a business; or
 (b) at any time was or formed part of such a record.
civil proceeding means a proceeding other than a criminal proceeding.
Convention means the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, a copy of the English text of which is set out in the Schedule.
criminal proceeding means a prosecution for an offence and includes a proceeding for the committal of a person for trial or sentence for an offence, but does not include a prosecution for an offence that is a prescribed taxation offence within the meaning of Part III of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.
designated offence means:
 (a) an offence against subsection 34GD(8) of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979, if the questioning warrant to which the offence relates is a PMV‑related questioning warrant; or
 (b) an offence against section 49 of the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004; or
 (c) an offence against either of the following provisions of the Charter of the United Nations Act 1945:
 (i) Part 4 of that Act;
 (ii) Part 5 of that Act, to the extent that it relates to the Charter of the United Nations (Sanctions—Al‑Qaida) Regulations 2008; or
 (d) an offence against Subdivision A of Division 72 of the Criminal Code; or
 (da) an offence against Subdivision B of Division 80 of the Criminal Code; or
 (db) an offence against Division 82 of the Criminal Code (sabotage); or
 (e) an offence against Part 5.3 of the Criminal Code; or
 (f) an offence against Part 5.4