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#### 4 Definitions In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > Act does not include an enactment. > criminal laws means any laws (whether written, unwritten, substantive or procedural) relating to offences, whether indictable or not, including laws about: (a) the investigation of offences; and (b) the punishment of offenders, including the penalties or loss of benefits to which offenders are liable; and (c) the forfeiture and confiscation of the proceeds of crime; and any laws providing for the interpretation of such laws. > enactment has the same meaning as in the Australian Capital Territory (Self‑Government) Act 1988. > Ordinance means an Ordinance made under this Act. > the Territory means the Australian Antarctic Territory which was accepted by the Commonwealth by the Australian Antarctic Territory Acceptance Act 1933, that is to say, that part of the territory in the Antarctic seas which comprises all the islands and territories, other than Adelie Land, situated south of the sixtieth degree south latitude and lying between the one hundred and sixtieth degree east longitude and the forty‑fifth degree east longitude.