Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CROSS-BORDER INSOLVENCY ACT 2008 - SECT 5

  (1)   In this Act:

"external Territory" : see subsection   19(6).

"Model Law" means the Model Law on Cross - Border Insolvency of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, set out in the Annex to United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/52/158 (1997), the English text of which is set out in Schedule   1 to this Act.

Note:   In 2008, the text of United Nations General Assembly Resolutions was accessible through the United Nations website (www.un.org).

  (2)   An expression that is used in both this Act and the Model Law (whether or not a particular meaning is given to it by the Model Law) has, in this Act, the same meaning as in the Model Law.