3Interpretation

##### 3 Interpretation (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > 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 connexion 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. > 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 rural local roads in an area of the State. > maintenance, in relation to a road, includes the repair of the road. > minor traffic engineering and road safety improvements, in relation to a road, includes: (a) works for the purpose of regulating the movement of persons or vehicles on the road; and (b) works designed to promote the safety of persons using the road. > national commerce road means a road or proposed road in respect of which a declaration under subsection 5(3) is in force, or a part of such road or proposed road. > national highway means a road or proposed road in respect of which a declaration under subsection 5(1) or (2) is in force, or a part of such a road or proposed road. > national road means a national highway or a national commerce road. > period to which this Act applies means the period that commenced on 1 July 1977 and ends on 30 June 1980. > 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. > road planning or research means scientific, technical or economic planning, investigation or research related to roads or road transport, and includes: (a) the investigation of transport by road in relation to othermeans of transport; and (b) research into road safety, the design of vehicles and the behaviour of road users. > road works means: (a) the construction of roads; (b) the maintenance of roads; and (c) minor traffic engineering and road safety improvements in relation to roads. > rural arterial road means a rural road that is for the time being declared by the Minister to be a rural arterial road for the purposes ofthis Act. > rural local road means a rural road that is not a national road or a rural arterial road. > rural road means a road or proposed road not in an urban area. > urban area means an area designated for the purposes of the Census taken in the year 1971 as: (a) the Sydney Statistical Division; (b) the Melbourne Statistical Division; (c) the Brisbane Statistical Division; (d) the Adelaide Statistical Division; (e) the Perth Statistical Division; (f) the Hobart Statistical Division; (g) the Newcastle Statistical District; (h) the Wollongong Statistical District; (j) the Geelong Statistical District; (k) Urban Ballarat; (l) Urban Bendigo; (m) Urban Townsville; (n) Urban Toowoomba; (p) Urban Gold Coast; (q) Urban Rockhampton; or (r) Urban Launceston. > urban arterial road means a road or proposed road in an urban area that is for the time being declared by the Minister to be an urban arterial road for the purposes of this Act. > urban local road means a road or proposed road in an urban area that is not a national road or an urban arterial road; year to which this Act applies means the year that commenced on 1 July 1977 or either of the 2 next succeeding years. (2) A reference in this Act to an amount expended by a State in respect of an approved project within the meaning of Part II is a reference to an amount expended in connexion with the carrying out of the works constituting the approved 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.