Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04041:section:1990:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A04041
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 1990 (pt 7/212)
Character Range: 22678–25429

"(5) In this section:

'instrument' means:

  (a) an Act or an instrument made under an Act; or

     (b) a law of the Capital Territory or an instrument made under such a law; or

     (c) an award or other industrial determination or order, or an industrial agreement; or

   (d) any other order (whether executive, judicial or otherwise); or

   (e) a notice, certificate or licence; or

   (f) an agreement; or

     (g) an application made, information laid, affidavit sworn, or warrant issued, for any purpose; or

   (h) an indictment, presentment, summons or writ; or

     (j) any other pleading in, or process issued in connection with, a legal or other proceeding; or

   (k) any other document whatever.

Saving of citation provisions of other jurisdictions

"15. Subject to section 14, section 12 is not intended to prevent a law of a jurisdiction other than the Capital Territory from:

     (a) providing that the Corporations Law, or the Corporations Regulations, of that jurisdiction may be referred to simply as the Corporations Law, or the Corporations Regulations; or

     (b) providing for how a reference to the Corporations Law, or to the Corporations Regulations, is to be interpreted for the purposes of the laws of that jurisdiction.

"PART 4—APPLICATION OF THE CORPORATIONS LAW TO THE CROWN

Interpretation

"16. To avoid doubt, a reference in this Part to the Crown in a particular right includes a reference to an instrumentality or agency (whether a body corporate or not) of the Crown in that right.

Corporations Law of the Capital Territory

"17. (1) Chapter 5 (except Part 5.8) of the Corporations Law of the Capital Territory binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of each of the States, of the Capital Territory, of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island.

"(2) To avoid doubt, Chapter 7 of the Corporations Law of the Capital Territory does not bind the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of any State, of the Capital Territory, of the Northern Territory or of Norfolk Island.

Corporations Law of other jurisdictions

"18. Chapter 5 (except Part 5.8) of the Corporations Law of each jurisdiction other than the Capital Territory binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of the Capital Territory and of Norfolk Island.

Crown not liable to prosecution

"19. Nothing in this Part, or in the Corporations Law, renders the Crown in any right liable to be prosecuted for an offence.

This Part overrides the prerogative

"20. Where, because of this Part, a provision of a law of a State binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of the Capital Territory or of Norfolk Island, the Crown in that right is subject to that provision despite any prerogative right or privilege.

"PART 5—POWER TO