4Interpretation

4 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

agent includes every person who in Australia, for or on behalf of any employer out of Australia (in this definition called his principal), holds or has the management or control of the business of his principal, and every person declared by the Commissioner to be an agent or the sole agent of any employer for the purposes of this Act.

class A waterside worker means a waterside worker who:

(a) is employed on a weekly hiring; and

(b) is a waterside worker to whom the Fund relates.

class B waterside worker means a waterside worker (not being a class A waterside worker) who is a waterside worker to whom the Fund relates.

class C waterside worker means a waterside worker who is not a class A waterside worker or a class B waterside worker.

company includes all bodies or associations, corporate or unincorporate, but does not include a partnership.

Deputy Commissioner means a Deputy Commissioner of Taxation.

employer means a person who employs waterside workers, and includes the Crown in right of a State and an authority constituted under the law of a State.

liquidator means a person who, whether or not appointed as liquidator, is the person required by law to carry out the winding‑up of a company.

officer means an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth.

person includes a company.

Second Commissioner means a Second Commissioner of Taxation.

the charge means the charge imposed by the Stevedoring Industry Charge Act 1947.

the Commissioner means the Commissioner of Taxation.

the Fund means the Stevedoring Employees’ Retirement Fund referred to in the recitals to the trust deed made on 6 October 1967 between the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour, an association registered as an organization under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904‑1967, of the first part, and:

(a) Charles Henry Fitzgibbon;

(b) John Christian Beitz;

(c) Colin Lindsay Craig;

(d) John Sydney Joblin; and