Interpretation
4 Interpretation
In this Act:
applicant means a person who applies for an order or warrant under this Act.
Court means the Local Court or the Supreme Court.
debt means a liquidated debt, whether pursuant to a judgment or otherwise, that is due and payable in the Territory.
debtor includes a person who an applicant alleges owes a debt to the applicant.
Local Court's jurisdictional limit means the jurisdictional limit of the Local Court's civil jurisdiction, as defined in section 12 of the Local Court Act 2015.
property includes realty and personalty or an interest, whether legal or equitable, in property.
wages means:
any sum due under:
a contract of employment; or
(ii) an award or industrial agreement regulating conditions of employment; and
(b) any sum due for long service leave, annual holidays or sick leave.
(2) A reference in this Act to the transfer of property includes a reference to the sale, or the assignment otherwise than for valuable consideration, of that property.
(3) For this Act, a person is satisfied as to all material matters in relation to a debtor if the person is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that:
the debtor owes a debt to the applicant; and
the debtor is about to leave the Territory; and
(c) failure to arrest the debtor would defeat, endanger or materially prejudice an applicant's prospects of recovering a debt; and
the debt:
is for wages due by the debtor to the applicant; or
is for an amount not less than the prescribed amount.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed amount
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Second reading speech
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