2Interpretation

2 Interpretation

*[Section 2 Amended by No. 30 of 1995, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]*In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears –

corporation of a municipality means a council;

distressed person means a person –

(a) whose lands, buildings, structures, or goods were destroyed or damaged by the fires;

(b) who has suffered personal injury by accident arising out of or caused by the fires;

(c) who is a dependant of a deceased person whose death was caused, or contributed to, or hastened, by the fires or resulted from such an injury; or

(d) who is a dependant of a deceased person whose death occurred in the course of any operations in which he was engaged during the period of emergency for or in connection with the relief or rehabilitation of persons who suffered loss, damage, or injury by reason of the fires;

goods includes all chattels personal other than money or things in action;

fires means the fires that occurred in the Southern Division of the State during the period of emergency;

[Section 2 Amended by No. 66 of 2007, Sched. 1, Applied:31 Dec 2008] legal practitioner means an Australian legal practitioner;

municipal district means a municipal area;

period of emergency means the period that commenced on the seventh day of February 1967 and ended on the third day of March 1967;

public authority means –

(a) a person or body constituted, established, or appointed under an enactment or in the exercise of the prerogative rights of the Crown to administer or control any department, business, undertaking, or public institution on behalf of the State;