Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CORPORATIONS ACT 1989 No. 109 of 1989 - SECT 8

8. (1) The effect that an interpretation provision has for the purposes of a
particular provision of this Act is additional to, and does not prejudice, its
effect for the purposes of any other provision of this Act.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an interpretation provision, as it
has effect for the purposes (in this subsection called the "relevant
purposes") of:

   (a)  a particular provision of this Act; or

   (b)  something that is, by any other application or applications of this
        subsection, deemed for the purposes of that subsection to be a
        distinct provision of this Act; shall be deemed to be a provision of
        this Act distinct from the interpretation provision as it has effect
        otherwise than for the relevant purposes.

(3) In this section:

"interpretation provision" means:

   (a)  a provision of this Part; or

   (b)  any other provision of this Act, whether in the form of a definition
        or not, that purports to give, or has the effect of giving, a
        particular meaning to an expression.