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TERRORISM (EXTRAORDINARY POWERS) ACT 2005 (NO. 41 OF 2005) - SECT 3

3 .         Interpretation

                In this Act —

        “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Police appointed under the Police Act 1892 or a person acting in that office;

        "judge" means a judge of the Supreme Court;

        “place” means any land, building or structure, or a part of any land, building or structure;

        “reasonably suspects” has the meaning given by section 4;

        “record” means any record of information, irrespective of how the information is recorded or stored or able to be recovered and includes —

            (a)         any thing from which images, sounds or writings can be reproduced, with or without the aid of anything else; and

            (b)         any thing on which information is recorded or stored, whether electronically, magnetically, mechanically or by some other means;

        “serious indictable offence” means an indictable offence the penalty specified by a written law for which is or includes imprisonment for 5 years or more or for life;

        “terrorist act” has the meaning given to that term by section 5;

        “thing connected with a terrorist actmeans a thing that was or may have been used, is or may be being used, or is about to be or may be used —

            (a)         to do a terrorist act; or

            (b)         in preparing to do a terrorist act;

        “vehicle” means any thing capable of transporting people or things by air, road, rail or water, and it does not matter how the thing is moved or propelled.



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