Interpretation

In force

In this Act —

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

data includes any record, any computer program, and any part of a computer program, in a digital, electronic or magnetic form;

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 act means 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.

[Section 3 amended: No. 39 of 2015 s. 4.]

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