Police Powers (Public Safety) Act 2005

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears – authorisation means an authorisation issued by the Commissioner of Police or the Supreme Court under Division 1 of Part 2;Commonwealth Criminal Code means the Criminal Code set out in the Schedule to the Criminal Code Act 1995 of the Commonwealth, or a law of the Commonwealth that replaces that Code; designated area means an area described as such in an authorisation; designated person means a person described as such in an authorisation; designated vehicle means a vehicle described as such in an authorisation; essential service means any of the following services:transport; fuel; light; power; water; sewerage; any other prescribed service (whether or not of a type similar to the services included in paragraphs (a) to (f)); premises includes – land and a structure, building, caravan, vehicle or vessel, whether temporary or not and whether under construction or not; and a place, whether enclosed or built on or not and whether on, within, over or under land or water; and a part of premises, including premises referred to in paragraph (a) or (b); record means any record of information, irrespective of how the information is recorded or stored or able to be recovered, and includes – any thing from which images, sounds or writings can be reproduced, with or without the aid of anything else; and 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 for which, specified by a written law, is or includes imprisonment for a term of 5 years or more or for life; special site or area means – the site of an airport, bus or coach station or interchange, train station or ship or ferry terminal; or an area where persons gather in large numbers; or part of an essential service located in a particular area; terrorist act has the same meaning as in Part 5.3 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code; vehicle means any thing capable of transporting people or things by air, road, rail or water, regardless of how the thing is moved or propelled.

A note in the text of this Act does not form part of this Act.