Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CORPORATION ACT 1989 No. 64 of 1989 - SECT 3

3. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"article" means any matter or thing, and includes, for example:

   (a)  a letter;

   (b)  a message or information;

   (c)  a direction to pay an amount of money;

   (d)  an envelope, packet, parcel, container or wrapper containing any
        matter or thing (including a letter, message, information or direction
        to pay an amount of money); and

   (e)  a message, information, or direction to pay an amount of money, that
        is not in written form;

"Australia", when used in a geographical sense, includes the external
Territories to which this Act extends;

"Australia Post" means the Australian Postal Corporation;

"authorised auditor" means:

   (a)  the Auditor-General; or

   (b)  a person authorised, in writing, by the Auditor-General;

"Board" means the Board of Directors of Australia Post;

"borrow" includes raise money or credit;

"carry", in relation to an article, means:

   (a)  carry the article from one place to another by physical means; or

   (b)  if the article is an unwritten communication-transmit the article from
        one place to another by electromagnetic or other non-physical means;
and includes:

   (c)  in the case of the carriage of an article from one place to another by
        physical means-collect or receive the article for carriage and deliver
        the article after carriage; and

   (d)  in the case of the transmission of an unwritten communication from one
        place to another by electromagnetic or other non-physical
        means-collect or receive the communication (whether in written or
        unwritten form) for transmission and deliver the communication
        (whether in written or unwritten form) after transmission;

"carry by post", in relation to an article, has the meaning given by section
4;

"Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Board;

"community service obligations" means obligations under section 27;

"convention" means a convention to which Australia is a party or an agreement
or arrangement between Australia and a foreign country;

"Deputy Chairperson" means the Deputy Chairperson of the Board;

"director" means a director of the Board and includes the Chairperson, the
Deputy Chairperson and the Managing Director;

"Federal Court" means the Federal Court of Australia;

"government director" means a director who was an officer of the Australian
Public Service at the time of his or her appointment;

"letter" means any form of written communication that is directed to a
particular person or address, and includes:

   (a)  any standard postal article;

   (b)  any envelope, packet, parcel, container or wrapper containing such a
        communication; and

   (c)  any unenclosed written communication that is directed to a particular
        person or address;

"Managing Director" means the Managing Director of Australia Post;

"office", in relation to Australia Post, means an office established by
Australia Post for the supply of postal services, and includes an office
conducted by an agent of Australia Post;

"ordinary post", in relation to the carrying of an article, has the meaning
given by section 5;

"postage", in relation to a postal article, means the amount payable for the
carrying of the article by post (including any special charge or additional
fee payable for special services supplied in relation to the carrying of the
article);

"postage stamp" includes an imprinted or printed mark, label or design
authorised by Australia Post for the purpose of paying postage for a postal
article;

"postal article" means an article of a kind that, under the terms and
conditions on which Australia Post supplies postal services, may be carried by
post;

"registered publication" means a copy of an issue of a publication that, under
the terms and conditions on which Australia Post supplies postal services, may
be carried by post as a registered publication;

"standard postal article" means, subject to the regulations, a postal article
(other than a registered publication) that satisfies all of the following
criteria:

   (a)  it does not weigh more than 500 grams;

   (b)  it is not more than 5mm thick;

   (c)  its other 2 dimensions form a rectangle:

        (i)    2 of whose sides are shorter than the other sides;

        (ii)   the shorter sides of which are not less than 88 mm, and not
               more than 122 mm, long;

        (iii)  the longer sides of which are not less than 138 mm, and not
               more than 237 mm, long; and

        (iv)   the adjacent sides of which are in the ratio of 1 to at least
               1.414;

"subsidiary" has the meaning given by section 6;

"the letter service" means the service supplied by Australia Post under
section 27;

"unwritten communication" includes a message, information, or direction to pay
an amount of money, that is not in written form.