Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated ActsIf an Act or statutory instrument defines a term, other parts of speech and grammatical forms of the term have corresponding meanings.
Example
The Publication (Grants) Act 2001 contains a definition of publish and also contains other forms of the same word (‘published', ‘publisher', ‘publishes', ‘publishing' and ‘publication'). Because of this section, all forms of the word will have the same meaning except so far as the Act otherwise expressly provides or a contrary intention appears (see s 6 (3)).
Note An example is
part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the
meaning of the provision in which it appears (see s 126 and s 132).
Note See also ch 10 (Referring to laws).