Victorian Current Acts

GEOGRAPHIC PLACE NAMES ACT 1998 - SECT 3

In this Act—

"Committee" means a Geographic Place Names Advisory Committee appointed under section 12;

"geographic name", in relation to a place, means the name registered in the Register as the name for that place;

"guidelines" means the guidelines having effect under Part 2;

"place" means any place or building that is, or is likely to be, of public or historical interest and includes, but is not restricted to—

        (a)     township, area, park, garden, reserve of land, suburb and locality;

        (b)     topographical feature, including undersea feature;

        (c)     street, road, transport station, government school, government hospital and government nursing home;

"Register" means the Register of Geographic Names established under section 9;

"Registrar" means the Registrar of Geographic Names appointed under section 7.