Queensland Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1954 - SECT 33A

33A References to States include Territories

(1) In an Act, a reference to a State (other than a reference to Queensland or a particular State by name) includes a reference to the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory.

Examples—

1 ‘A law of a State’ includes a law of the Australian Capital Territory and a law of the Northern Territory.

2 ‘A law of the Commonwealth or another State’ includes a law of the Australian Capital Territory and a law of the Northern Territory.

(2) Subsection (1) is not displaced merely because there is an express reference to a Territory elsewhere in the Act .

(3) This section applies to an Act (other than this Act) enacted before 1 July 1994 only if the Act includes a definition to the effect that a reference to a State includes a reference to a Territory.