Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsIn this Act—
central district means the central district of the Supreme Court.
Editor's note—
The central district is declared under the Supreme Court Act 1995, section 266A.
certifying officer means any certifying officer appointed under and for the purposes of this Act.
charitable purpose means every purpose which in accordance with the law of England is a charitable purpose, and, without limiting or otherwise affecting the aforegoing, includes all or any of the following—
(a) the supply of help, aid, relief, assistance, or support howsoever to any persons in distress (including, but without limiting the generality thereof, the supply of the physical wants of any such persons);
(b) the education or instruction (spiritual, mental, physical, technical, or social) and the reformation, employment, or care of any persons;
(c) any public purpose (whether of any of the purposes before enumerated or not) being a purpose in which the general interest of the community or a substantial section of the community (at large or in a particular locality), as opposed to the particular interest of individuals, is directly and vitally concerned;
(d) the construction, carrying out, maintenance, or repair of buildings, works, and places for any of the purposes aforementioned;
(e) any benevolent or philanthropic purpose (whether of the purposes before enumerated or not);
(f) any analogous purpose declared either generally or in the particular case for the purposes of this Act by the Governor in Council by order in council published in the gazette to be a charitable purpose.
collection, in relation to any fund, means the receiving of any property for the fund by all or any of the following means—
(a) voluntary contributions;
(b) the sale of any property voluntarily contributed;
(c) lotteries, carnivals, fetes, entertainments or any other projects conducted for the raising of the fund by any manner of voluntary contribution (whether of the like nature or not).
contributor, in relation to any fund, includes every contributor who contributes or has contributed to the fund (whether by gift made on any 1 or more occasions inter vivos or by will or by the purchase of any ticket or share in any lottery or by the payment of admission to any entertainment conducted for the raising of the fund or by other manner of voluntary contribution).
far northern district means the far northern district of the Supreme Court.
Editor's note—
The far northern district is declared under the Supreme Court Act 1995, section 266A.
fund means any fund or part of a fund raised by collection for any charitable purpose and at any material time consisting of any property resulting from collection or from the management of the fund or from partly one and partly the other and, without limiting or otherwise affecting the aforegoing, includes the fund raised following an accident which occurred on the Tollbar Road near Toowoomba on 31 January 1955, and known as the 'Australia Day Truck Disaster Fund', but does not include any fund which is not raised wholly or partly by public voluntary contribution.
northern district means the northern district of the Supreme Court.
Editor's note—
The northern district is declared under the Supreme Court Act 1995, section 266A.
persons, in relation to any charitable purpose, includes children as well as persons of a special class, whether of a localised section of the community or otherwise or whether a substantial body of the public or not, any particular individuals, and any fluctuating body of persons of a special class or of particular individuals.
persons in distress, in relation to any charitable purpose, includes diseased, sick, aged, impotent, bodily or mentally infirm, incurable, poor, needy, destitute, helpless and unemployed persons, and any person in distress (whether of the classes before enumerated or not) by reason of the death or disability of another or others by whom they were wholly or partly maintained, or by reason of fire, flood, drought or other catastrophe, and any dependants of any such persons.
property, in relation to any fund, means real and personal property of every description, and, without limiting or otherwise affecting the aforegoing, includes goods, money, and securities for money.
trustees, in relation to any fund or any property in any fund, includes the holders for the time being of the fund or, as the case may be, property and, where necessary, every person for the time being having or exercising the management or control, either solely or jointly with another or others, of or over the fund or, as the case may be, property.