4Interpretation

#### 4 Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > amended: for when an applied Western Australian law is amended, see subsection 8GA(4). > applied Western Australian law means a Western Australian law as in force in the Territory under section 8A. > authority includes a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose. > Christmas Island means the Island of that name situated in the Indian Ocean in or about latitude 10˚30´ south and longitude 105˚40´ east. > constable means: (a) a member or special member of the Australian Federal Police; or (b) an officer or special officer of the police force of the Territory. > court officer of Western Australia means a person holding, or performing the functions or duties of, any of the following offices: (a) any of the following offices in a court of Western Australia: (i) Judge; (ii) Magistrate (however described); (iii) Master; (iv) Registrar (however described); (v) Clerk (however described); (vi) Sheriff (however described); (vii) Bailiff (however described); or (b) any of the following offices in the Family Court of Western Australia: (i) Marshal; (ii) Director of Court Counselling; (iii) Collector of Maintenance; or (c) the office of Chairman, Deputy Chairman or nominee member of the Worker’s Compensation Board of Western Australia; or (d) any other office in respect of a court of Western Australia, being an office specified in the regulations. > court of Western Australia means any of the following courts or tribunals: (a) the Supreme Court of Western Australia; (b) the District Court of Western Australia; (c) the Family Court of Western Australia; (d) a Court of Petty Sessions of Western Australia; (e) a Local Court of Western Australia; (f) a coroners’ court of Western Australia; (g) the Children’s Court of Western Australia; (h) the Workers’ Compensation Board of Western Australia; (i) any other court or tribunal specified in the regulations. > jurisdiction includes powers. > laws of the Territory or laws in force in the Territory means the laws in force in the Territory as mentioned in section 7. > Ordinance means an Ordinance made under this Act. > power includes a function or duty, and, in that context exercise means perform. > prison includes a lock‑up or other place of lawful detention. > Registrar means the Registrar, or the Deputy Registrar, of the Supreme Court. > Sheriff means the Sheriff, or a Deputy Sheriff, of the Territory. > State includes a Territory other than the Territory. > the police force of the Territory includes any police force empowered to provide police services under a law in force in the Territory. > the proclaimed date means the date fixed by Proclamation under subsection 2(2). > the Supreme Court means the Supreme Court of the Territory. > the Territory means the Territory of Christmas Island. > Western Australian law: see subsection 8A(6). (2) In this Act, a reference to an Act is a reference to the whole or a part of that Act, or to the whole or a part of a law made under that Act.