Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

LEGISLATION ACT 2001 - SECT 160

    (1)     In an Act or statutory instrument, a reference to a "person" generally includes a reference to a corporation as well as an individual.

    (2)     Subsection (1) is not displaced only because there is an express reference to either an individual or a corporation elsewhere in the Act or statutory instrument.

Examples—references to a person generally

1     another person

2     anyone else

3     party

4     someone else

5     employer

Examples—express references to a corporation

1     body corporate

2     company

Examples—express references to an individual

1     adult

2     child

3     spouse

4     driver

    (3)     Subsection (2) does not limit the operation of section 6.

Note     Section 6 deals with the displacement of a provision of this Act.