3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

*[Section 3 Amended by No. 30 of 1995, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]*In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires –

advisory committee means the committee established under section 5 ;

affected area means the area near the junctions of Officer Street, Hone Road and Crosby Road in Rosetta in the City of Glenorchy;

affected property means a property in the affected area that is within an area declared to be an A landslip area by an order made under Division 6 of Part 2 of the Local Government (Building and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993 , and includes any improvements to any such property;

application means an application made to the Minister by an eligible owner for the Crown to purchase an affected property owned by that person;

the Bank means the bank registered under the Trustee Banks Act 1985 and trading as the Trust Bank and previously trading as, variously, the Hobart Savings Bank, the Savings Bank of Tasmania and the SBT Bank;

Council means the Glenorchy City Council;

eligible owner means a person who is the owner of the fee simple of an affected property but does not include –

(a) the Crown, the Bank or the Council; or

(b) a person who has instituted proceedings against the Crown, the Council or the Bank or a person acting on behalf of the Crown, the Council or the Bank in respect of any damage suffered or alleged to have been suffered as a result of any actual or potential earth movement in the affected area; or

(c) a person, one of whose predecessors in title was a person referred to in paragraph (b) ;

the Fund means the Rosetta Landslip Trust Fund established under ;