3Definitions

3 Definitions

3 Definitions

In this Act—

approved company means a company approved under section 9.

assets means any legal or equitable estate or interest (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent) in real or personal property of any description (including money), and includes securities, choses in action and documents.

Brigade means the Mines Rescue Brigade established by this Act.

coal includes oil shale and kerosene shale, but does not include peat.

Corporations Act means the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth.

dissolution date means the date on which section 4 (1) of the Coal Industry Repeal Act 2001 of the Commonwealth commences.

emergency means an emergency due to an actual or imminent occurrence (such as fire, explosion, accident or flooding) that has resulted in the death of, or injury to, a person or is endangering or is threatening to endanger the life or physical well-being of a person.

employer in the coal industry means any employer whose employees work in or about a coal mine.

exercise a function includes perform a duty.

former members of the JCB staff means the members of staff of the Joint Coal Board immediately before the dissolution of that Board.

former 1994 Act means the Mines Rescue Act 1994.

function includes a power, authority or duty.

inspector means an employee of an approved company appointed as an inspector as referred to in section 25.

Joint Coal Board means the body corporate constituted in pursuance of the Coal Industry Act 1946 and the Coal Industry Act 1946 of the Commonwealth.

liabilities means all liabilities, debts and obligations (whether present or future and whether vested or contingent).

MEU means the Mining and Energy Union registered under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 of the Commonwealth or any body succeeding or replacing that body.

mine means any pit or other place where mining is carried on or which is being developed for mining to be carried on, and includes a quarry and a salt-pan (whether occurring naturally or created artificially) and also includes any place, located at or in the vicinity of the mine, where material extracted from the mine is processed.

Minerals Council means the New South Wales Minerals Council Limited (ACN 002 500 316).