New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsIn the interpretation of this Act, unless the context or subject-matter
otherwise indicates or requires--
"Administrator" means administrator within the meaning of the Probate and
Administration Act 1898 and includes the NSW Trustee acting as collector of an
estate under an order to collect.
"Contingent right" , as applied to land, includes a contingent or executory
interest, a possibility coupled with an interest, whether the object of the
gift or limitation of the interest or possibility is or is not ascertained,
also a right of entry, whether immediate or future, and whether vested or
contingent.
"Convey" and
"conveyance" , applied to any person, include the execution or doing by that
person of every necessary or suitable assurance act and thing for conveying,
assigning, appointing, surrendering, or otherwise transferring or disposing of
property.
"Court" means the Supreme Court.
"Executor" means the executor to whom probate has been granted and includes an
executor by right of representation.
"Government securities" include Government stocks, funds, bonds, debentures
and Treasury bills.
"Incapable person" means a person not a minor who is incapable through mental
infirmity, arising from disease or age, of managing his or her affairs, but
who is not an insane person.
"Insane person" means a person who has been found or declared, whether by
inquisition or under any Lunacy Act in force at the time, to be insane or of
unsound mind and incapable of managing himself or herself or his or her
affairs.
"Instrument" includes deed will and Act of Parliament.
"Joint tenant" includes joint owner.
"Land" includes tenements and hereditaments, corporeal and incorporeal, and
every estate and interest therein, whether vested or contingent, freehold or
leasehold, and whether at law or in equity, in severalty or otherwise.
"Legal representative" means executor or administrator.
"Minor" means a person under the age of eighteen years.
"Mortgage" includes and relates to every estate and interest regarded in
equity as merely a security for money.
"Mortgagee" includes any person from time to time deriving title to the
mortgage under the original mortgagee.
"Mortgagor" includes any person from time to time deriving title to the equity
of redemption under the original mortgagor, or entitled to redeem a mortgage,
according to the person's estate interest or right in the mortgaged property.
"NSW Trustee" means the NSW Trustee and Guardian constituted under the
NSW Trustee and Guardian Act 2009 .
"Order" includes judgment.
"Pay into court" and
"payment into court" in relation to stocks and securities, include the deposit
or transfer of the same in or into court.
"Possessed" extends to receipt of income of, and to any vested estate less
than a life estate, legal or equitable, in possession or in expectancy, in any
property.
"Property" includes real and personal property, and any estate or interest in
any property, real or personal, and any debt, and any thing in action, and any
claim or demand, and any other right or interest, whether in possession or
not.
"Purchaser" includes a lessee or mortgagee, or other person who for valuable
consideration takes or deals for any property; and
"purchase" has a meaning corresponding with that of purchaser; but
"sale" means only a sale properly so-called.
"Regulation" means regulation made under this Act.
"Right" includes estate and interest.
"Security" includes stocks, funds, shares.
"Stock" includes paid-up shares; and, so far as relates to vesting orders made
by the Court under this Act, includes any fund annuity or security
transferable in books kept by any corporation company or society, or by
instrument of transfer, either alone or accompanied by other formalities, and
any share or interest therein.
"Transfer" in relation to stock includes the performance and execution of
every deed, power of attorney, act, and thing on the part of the transferor to
effect and complete the title in the transferee.
"Trust" does not include the duties incident to an estate conveyed by way of
mortgage; but, with this exception, includes implied and constructive trusts,
and cases where the trustee has a beneficial interest in the trust property,
and the duties incident to the office of legal representative of a deceased
person.
"Trustee" has a meaning corresponding with that of trust; and includes legal
representative and the NSW Trustee and a trustee company.
"Trustee company" means an incorporated company authorised by Act of
Parliament of this State to act as trustee in New South Wales.
"Trustee for sale" means a trustee in whom a trust for sale or a power of sale
of property is vested.
"Will" includes codicil.
Note : The Interpretation Act 1987 contains definitions and other provisions that affect the interpretation and application of this Act.