2Terms used

##### 2. Terms used In this Act, if not inconsistent with the context — Authority means the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia established by the *Public Transport Authority Act 2003* section 5; charges includes rates, fares, demurrage, storage, rents, fines and other charges; chief executive officer means the chief executive officer of the Authority; Department means the department of the Public Service principally assisting the Minister in the administration of this Act; goods means goods, produce, merchandise, parcels, luggage, including passengers’ luggage, and chattels of any description, and includes minerals and live or dead animals; liquor has the same meaning as it has in the *Liquor Control Act 1988*; notice means a statement conveying the general effect of a matter or thing done or intended to be done; prescribed means prescribed by by‑laws under this Act; public notice means a notice published in the *Government Gazette* or in a newspaper circulating in the locality in which the subject matter of the notice arises or to which it relates, or posted in a conspicuous place on any railway station in such locality; publicly notified means notified by public notice; railway or government railway means any railway belonging to Her Majesty in Western Australia which has been or may be hereafter declared open for traffic by notice in the *Government Gazette*, and includes — (a) all land belonging to Her Majesty upon which the railway is constructed, or which is or is reputed to be held or used in connection with or for the purpose of a railway; and also (b) all branch lines, sidings, buildings, erections, wharves, jetties, works, locomotives, motor cars, motor and other vehicles, rolling‑stock, plant, machinery, goods, chattels, and other fixed or movable property of every description or kind belonging to Her Majesty, and situate on such land, or held or used or reputed to be held or used in connection with or for the purposes of a railway, except that it does not include any railway or portion of a railway that under section 66A is not a government railway for the purposes of this Act; road includes street, right‑of‑way, and thoroughfare. [Section 2 amended: No. 36 of 1933 s. 3; No. 72 of 1947 s. 3; No. 78 of 1948 s. 5; No. 37 of 1957 s. 2; No. 61 of 1970 s. 2; No. 77 of 1980 s. 2; No. 54 of 1985 s. 56; No. 16 of 1987 s. 6; No. 87 of 1990 s. 4; No. 7 of 2002 s. 62(2); No. 31 of 2003 s. 97; No. 73 of 2006 s. 115; No. 19 of 2010 s. 60(4).]