Mutual Assistance in Business Regulation Act 1992
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3 Interpretation
(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
business law means a law that regulates, or relates to the regulation of, business or persons engaged in business.
Commonwealth regulator means an authority of the Commonwealth that:
(a) has functions relating to the administration or enforcement of a business law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; and
(b) is prescribed for the purposes of this definition.
foreign business law means:
(a) a business law of a foreign country; or
(b) a law, or rules or regulations (however described), that an international business regulator administers or enforces.
foreign regulator means:
(a) the government of a foreign country or a part of a foreign country; or
(b) an agency of such a government having functions relating to the administration or enforcement of a foreign business law; or
(c) a person or body that is certified by such a government as having such functions in the country or part of a country that it governs; or
(d) an international business regulator.
foreign request. means a request under section 6.
international business regulator means a body that satisfies the following conditions:
(a) the body has functions relating to the regulation, in 2 or more countries, of business, or persons engaged in business;
(b) those functions are conferred on the body by:
(i) a law or laws in force in those countries; or
(ii) a treaty, or other international agreement, to which those countries are parties; or
(iii) without limiting subparagraphs (i) and (ii)—a parliament or other body established by or under a treaty, or other international agreement, to which those countries are parties.
(2) For the purposes of this Act: (a) a colony, territory or protectorate of a foreign country; and (b) a territory for the international relations of which a foreign country is responsible; is taken, unless the contrary intention appears, to be part of that foreign country. (3) A reference in this Act to a law of a foreign country includes a reference to a law of a part of, or a law in force in a part of, the foreign country.