In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –
"aggrieved person", for Part 3, Division 1, has the meaning in section 11(1);
"Australian court" means any court established by or under a law of an Australian jurisdiction (including a court conducting committal proceedings for an indictable offence);
"Australian jurisdiction" means –
(a) a State; or
(b) a Territory; or
(c) the Commonwealth;
"Australian tribunal" means any tribunal (other than a court) established by or under a law of an Australian jurisdiction that has the power to take evidence from witnesses before it on oath or affirmation (including a Royal Commission or other special commission of inquiry);
"country" includes –
(a) a federation and a state, territory, province or other part of a federation; and
(b) an Australian jurisdiction;
"document" means any record of information, and includes –
(a) anything on which there is writing; and
(b) anything on which there are marks, figures, symbols or perforations having a meaning for persons qualified to interpret them; and
(c) anything from which sounds, images or writings can be reproduced with or without the aid of anything else; and
(d) a map, plan, drawing or photograph;
"electronic communication" includes a communication of information in the form of data, text, images or sound (or any combination of these) by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy, or both;
"general law" means the common law and equity;
"matter" includes –
(a) an article, report, advertisement or other thing communicated by means of a newspaper, magazine or other periodical; and
(b) a program, report, advertisement or other thing communicated by means of television, radio, the Internet or any other form of electronic communication; and
(c) a letter, note or other writing; and
(d) a picture, gesture or oral utterance; and
(e) any other thing by means of which something may be communicated to a person;
"matter in question", for Part 3, Division 1, has the meaning in section 11(1);
"offer to make amends" means an offer to make amends under Part 3, Division 1;
"parliamentary body" means –
(a) a parliament or legislature of any country; or
(b) a house of a parliament or legislature of any country; or
(c) a committee of a parliament or legislature of any country; or
(d) a committee of a house or houses of a parliament or legislature of any country;
"publisher", for Part 3, Division 1, has the meaning in section 11(1);
"substantially true" means true in substance or not materially different from the truth;
"Territory" means the Australian Capital Territory or Northern Territory;
"this jurisdiction" means the Northern Territory.