Commonwealth Numbered Acts

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ACT 1975 No. 12, 1975 - SECT 3

3. (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears-

''Aboriginal'' means a member of the Aboriginal race of Australia and includes
a Torres Strait Islander;

''agreement'' includes a treaty or convention;

''aircraft'' means a machine or apparatus that can derive support in the
atmosphere from the reactions of the air or from buoyancy, but does not
include a hovercraft;

''animal'' means any member, alive or dead, of the animal kingdom (other than
man), and includes-

   (a)  eggs or parts of eggs; and

   (b)  the skin, feathers, horns, shell or any other part of an animal;

''article'' includes a substance or a mixture of substances;

''Australia'' includes the external Territories to which this Act extends;

''Australian coastal sea'' means any sea or waters the sovereignty in respect
of which is declared by the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 to be vested in
the Crown in right of Australia, but does not include any waters referred to
in section 14 of that Act;

''continental shelf of Australia'' has the same meaning as in the Seas and 
Submerged Lands Act 1973 ;

''Director'' means the Director of National Parks and Wildlife;

''Fund'' means the Fund established by this Act;

''hovercraft'' means a vehicle designed to be supported on a cushion of air;

''operations for the recovery of minerals'' includes prospecting or
exploration for minerals;

''park'' means a park declared under section 7;

''plan of management'' means a plan of management in force under section  12 ;

''plant'' means any member, alive or dead, of the plant kingdom or of the
fungus kingdom, and includes seeds and parts of plants;

''ranger'' means a person appointed as a ranger under section 37;

''reserve'' means a reserve declared under section 7;

''right'' does not include sovereign rights;

''Service'' means the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service
established by this Act;

''Territory'' means an internal Territory or an external Territory to which
this Act extends;

''this Act'' includes the regulations;

''vehicle'' includes a hovercraft;

''vessel'' means a ship, boat, raft or pontoon or any other thing capable of
carrying persons or goods through or on water, but does not include a
hovercraft;

''warden'' means-

   (a)  a person appointed as a warden under section 37; or

   (b)  a person referred to in section 38;

''wilderness zone'' means a wilderness zone declared under
section 7;

''wildlife'' means-

   (a)  animals and plants that are indigenous to Australia;

   (b)  animals and plants that are indigenous to the Australian coastal sea
        or the sea-bed and subsoil beneath that sea;

   (c)  animals and plants that are indigenous to the continental shelf of
        Australia or the superjacent waters;

   (d)  migratory animals that periodically or occasionally visit Australia,
        the Australian coastal sea or the sea over the continental shelf of
        Australia;

   (e)  animals and plants of a kind introduced into Australia, directly or
        indirectly, by Aboriginals before the year 1788; and

   (f)  such other animals and plants, not being domesticated animals or
        cultivated plants, as are prescribed.

(2) In this Act, a reference to the sea-bed includes a reference to the
surface of any coral formation, and a reference to the subsoil includes a
reference to the coral beneath the surface of any such formation.

(3) In this Act, a reference to public notice is a reference to notice
published-

   (a)  in the Gazette;

   (b)  in a local newspaper, if any, circulating in the area concerned; and

   (c)  in each State and Territory, in a newspaper circulating throughout
        that State or Territory.