3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

Australia includes the external Territories.

Australian money means a coin or paper money that is, by virtue of a law in force in Australia, lawfully current in Australia.

authorized person means the Treasurer or a person authorized, in writing, by the Treasurer for the purposes of the provision in which the expression occurs.

Convention means the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency that was opened for signature at Geneva on 20 April 1929 and the protocol to that Convention, being the convention and protocol a copy of the English text of each of which is set out in the Schedule.

counterfeit money means:

(a) any article, not being a genuine coin or genuine paper money, that resembles, or is apparently intended to resemble, or pass for, a genuine coin or genuine paper money; or
(b) any article, being a genuine coin or genuine paper money, that has been altered in a material respect and in such a manner as to conceal, or to be apparently intended to conceal, the alteration;

and includes any such article whether it is or is not in a fit state to be uttered and whether the process of manufacture or alteration is or is not complete.

counterfeit prescribed security means:

(a) any article, not being a prescribed security, that resembles, or is apparently intended to resemble, or pass for, a prescribed security; or
(b) any article, being a prescribed security, that has been altered in a material respect and in such a manner as to conceal, or to be apparently intended to conceal, the alteration;

and includes any such article whether it is or is not in a fit state to be uttered and whether the process of manufacture or alteration is or is not complete.

excepted counterfeit coin means:

(a) any article, not being a genuine coin, that resembles, or is apparently intended to resemble, or pass for, an excepted coin; or
(b) any article, being an excepted coin, that has been altered in a material respect and in such manner as to conceal, or to be apparently intended to conceal, the alteration;

and includes any such article whether or not it is in a fit state to be uttered and whether the process of manufacture or alteration is or is not complete.

excepted coin means: