Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LANDS ACQUISITION ACT 1989 No. 15 of 1989 - SECT 6

6. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"acquiring authority" means:

   (a)  the Commonwealth; or

   (b)  a Commonwealth authority;

"Australia" includes the external Territories;

"authorised person" has the meaning given by section 7;

"authority" does not include:

   (a)  a body politic;

   (b)  an incorporated association or society;

   (c)  an incorporated company; or

   (d)  a body of trustees;

"Commonwealth authority" means an authority:

   (a)  that is incorporated by or under a law of the Commonwealth or by or
        under a law of a Territory, other than:

        (i)    an enactment as defined by section 3 of the
               Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988;

        (ii)   a law of the Northern Territory; or

        (iii)  a law of Norfolk Island; and

   (b)  that is not declared by the regulations to be an exempt authority;

"compensation claim form" means a form approved by the Minister for the
purposes of subsection 67 (2);

"Court" or "Federal Court" means the Federal Court of Australia;

"Crown land" means land the property of the Commonwealth, a State or a
Territory;

"dispose" includes grant or create;

"interest", in relation to land (including overseas land), means:

   (a)  any legal or equitable estate or interest in the land;

   (b)  a restriction on the use of the land, whether or not annexed to other
        land; or

   (c)  any other right (including a right under an option and a right of
        redemption), charge, power or privilege over or in connection with the
        land or an interest in the land;
and includes the interest of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory in
Crown land;

"land" means land in Australia;

"mortgage" means a security over an interest in land (including overseas land)
securing the payment or repayment of money;

"mortgagee", in relation to a mortgage, means the person who is or was
entitled to receive payment or repayment of the money secured by the mortgage;

"mortgage interest" means the interest in land of a mortgagee under a
mortgage;

"mortgagor", in relation to a mortgage, means the person who is or was the
owner of the interest in land subject to the mortgage;

"overseas land" means land outside Australia;

"planning instrument" means an instrument made under a law of the
Commonwealth, a State or a Territory that relates to town planning or use of
land;

"pre-acquisition declaration" means a declaration under subsection 22 (1);

"public park" means land that, under a law of a State or Territory, is
dedicated or reserved, or is vested in trustees, as a public park or national
park or otherwise for the purposes of public recreation;

"public purpose" means a purpose in respect of which the Parliament has power
to make laws and includes, in relation to land in a Territory, any purpose in
relation to the Territory;

"Tribunal" means the Administrative Appeals Tribunal;

"Trust Fund" means the Trust Fund kept pursuant to section 60 of the Audit 
Act 1901 ;

"unreviewable pre-acquisition declaration" means a pre-acquisition declaration
that includes a statement under subsection 22 (6).