Acts Interpretation Act 1931

In any Act – Australia means the Commonwealth of Australia and, when used in a geographical sense, does not include an external Territory;British possession shall mean any part of the Sovereign's dominions, exclusive of the United Kingdom, and, where parts of such dominions are under both a central and a local legislature, all parts under such central legislature shall be deemed, for the purposes of this definition, to be one possession;Central Plan Register means the central plan register established under the Survey Co-ordination Act 1944; coastal waters, when used in relation to Tasmania, has the same meaning as the expression "coastal waters of the State" has in relation to Tasmania under the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 of the Commonwealth; external Territory means a Territory, other than an internal Territory, for the government of which as a Territory, provision is made by a Commonwealth Act; foreign country means any country, whether or not an independent sovereign State, outside Australia and the external Territories;Government Printer includes a person – authorised by the Government of this State to print any matter; or approved by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel under section 6(10) of the Legislation Publication Act 1996; internal Territory means the Australian Capital Territory, the Jervis Bay Territory or the Northern Territory;Jervis Bay Territory means the Territory referred to in the Jervis Bay Territory Acceptance Act 1915 of the Commonwealth;Northern Division, or words of similar import, used in relation to this State, shall be deemed to refer to all that part of the State situate or lying to the north of the forty-second parallel of latitude;Northern Territory means the Northern Territory of Australia;Southern Division or words of similar import, used in relation to this State, shall be deemed to refer to all that part of the State situate or lying to the south of the forty-second parallel of latitude;State means a State of the Commonwealth;Territory means a Territory of the Commonwealth; the Commonwealth shall mean the Commonwealth of Australia; the Governor shall mean the Governor of this State, or the person for the time being administering the government of this State, acting with the advice of the Executive Council; the United Kingdom shall mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In any Act, a reference to the State, this State or Tasmania is a reference to the State of Tasmania and its dependencies.

In any Act – northern area or northern region means that part of the State comprising the city of Launceston and the municipal areas of Break O'Day, Dorset, Flinders, George Town, Meander Valley, Northern Midlands and West Tamar; north-western area or north-western region means that part of the State comprising the cities of Burnie and Devonport and the municipal areas of Central Coast, Circular Head, Kentish, King Island, Latrobe, Waratah-Wynyard and West Coast; southern area or southern region means that part of the State comprising the cities of Hobart, Clarence and Glenorchy and the municipal areas of Brighton, Central Highlands, Glamorgan-Spring Bay, Huon Valley, Kingborough, New Norfolk, Sorell, Southern Midlands and Tasman.