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#### 2 Definitions 2 Definitions > In this Act, unless the context or subject matter otherwise indicates or requires— > > Board means the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales constituted under this Act. > > Counsellor means a counsellor appointed under this Act. > > Department means the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation. > > Geographical name means the name of a place, which name has, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, been notified in the Gazette as a geographical name, but does not include a name which has ceased to be a geographical name under this Act. > > Lands Department map means— > > > (a) in relation to any area within the Eastern and Central Division of New South Wales, as defined in the [Crown Land Management Act 2016](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2016-058)—a standard topographical map published before the commencement of this Act by or under the direction or control of the Department of Lands, for that area or, if there is no such standard topographical map for that area, a parish map, so published, which includes that area, > > > (b) in relation to any area within the Western Division of New South Wales, as defined in the [Crown Land Management Act 2016](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2016-058)—a standard topographical map, published before the commencement of this Act by or under the direction or control of the Department of Lands, for that area or, if there is no such standard topographical map for that area, the county map, so published, which includes that area, and > > > (c) in relation to Lord Howe Island—the map of Lord Howe Island published by the Department of Lands and dated 6 July 1962. > > Place means any geographical or topographical feature or any area, district, division, locality, region, city, town, village, settlement or railway station or any other place within the territories and waters of the State of New South Wales but does not include any road, any area (within the meaning of the [Local Government Act 1993](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1993-030)), area of operations of a county council or a joint organisation area (within the meaning of that Act), any electoral district under the [Electoral Act 2017](/view/html/inforce/current/act-2017-066), any school or any place or place within a class of places to which the provisions of this Act do not apply by virtue of the regulations. > > Recorded name means the name of a place as it appears on a Lands Department map or, where the name of a place appears differently on two or more such maps, the name of that place as it appears on whichever of those maps was published later than the other or others. > > Secretary means the Secretary of the Department. > > **s 2:** Am 1987 No 63, Sch 2; 1993 No 108, Sch 1; 1995 No 11, Sch 1; 2001 No 112, Sch 1.12 \[1\]; 2010 No 59, Sch 2.37 \[1\]; 2009 No 102, Sch 6.1; 2015 No 58, Sch 3.38 \[1\]; 2017 No 17, Sch 4.39; 2017 No 65, Sch 2.10; 2017 No 66, Sch 8.10.