3Interpretation

#### 3 Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > arterial road means a road or proposed road that is for the time being declared by the Minister to be an arterial road for the purposes of this Act, or a part of such a road or proposed road. > construction, in relation to a road, includes: (a) the reconstruction or realignment of the road; (b) the bringing of the road to a higher standard; (c) investigation and associated engineering studies in connection with: (i) the construction, reconstruction or realignment of the road; (ii) the bringing of the road to a higher standard; or (iii) the planning of alternative routes for the road; (d) the acquisition of land for the purpose of: (i) constructing, reconstructing or realigning the road; or (ii) bringing the road to a higher standard; and (e) the doing of any other thing in relation to a matter specified in paragraph (a) or (b) approved by the Minister for the purposes of this definition; but does not include the maintenance of the road. > developmental road means a road or proposed road in respect of which a declaration under subsection 5(3) is in force. > government authority means a municipal, shire or other local authority, and includes an authority of a State, being an incorporated body, that is responsible for the construction and maintenance of local roads in an area of the State. > local road means a road, or a part of a road, that is not a national road or an arterial road. > maintenance, in relation to a road, includes the repair of the road. > national highway means a road or proposed road in respect of which a declaration under subsection 5(1) or (2) is in force. > national road means a national highway or a developmental road, or a part of a national highway or developmental road. > relevant year means the year commencing on 1 July 1981 or any of the 3 next succeeding years. > road includes: (a) a road sign; (b) traffic control equipment; (c) street lighting equipment; (d) a vehicular ferry; (e) a bridge or tunnel, including a bridge or tunnel for the use of pedestrians; (f) a path for the use of persons riding bicycles; (g) a ramp provided to facilitate the launching of boats; and (h) vehicular access from a road to a ramp referred to in paragraph (g); associated with a road. > State includes the Northern Territory. (2) A reference in this Act to an amount expended by a State in respect of a project included in a program of projects in respect of which there is in force an approval by the Minister under section 7 is a reference to an amount expended in connection with the carrying out of the works constituting the project in accordance with any standards applicable to those works by virtue of a notification in force under section 6. (3) An amount paid by a State to a government authority for a particular purpose shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been expended by the State for that purpose, and an amount set aside by a State for payment to a government authority for a particular purpose shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been set aside by the State for expenditure for that purpose. (4) For the purposes of this Act, where an amount is expended by a State or a government authority by way of the payment of wages and an amount of tax is paid by the State or the authority (whether by way of a payment of moneys, the crediting of an account or otherwise) on those wages, being a tax imposed by a law of the State upon employers on wages paid by them, the amount of tax shall be deemed to be an additional amount of those wages. (5) In subsection (4), wages includes payments in the nature of wages. (6) Subject to subsection (4), for the purposes of this Act, moneys paid or credited by a State to a trust account or other account in the Treasury of the State shall not be taken, by reason only of their having been so paid or credited, to have been expended by the State.