Commonwealth Numbered Acts

CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION (ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY) ACT 1985 No. 50 of 1985 - SECT 4

4. (1) In this Act -

   (a)  a reference to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act is a reference to
        the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904;

   (b)  a reference to the electricity industry is a reference to the industry
        in Australia constituted by the generation and distribution of
        electrical power, or any part of that industry;

   (c)  a reference to an authority includes a reference to the Government of
        a State or Territory and also includes a reference to any person or
        body of persons, whether incorporated or not, on whom or on which
        powers are conferred by a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a
        Territory; and

   (d)  a reference to an electricity authority -

        (i)    is a reference to an authority that is engaged in the
               electricity industry; and

        (ii)   in the case of a reference to an electricity authority of
               Queensland - includes a reference to a person who is engaged to
               carry out work (otherwise than as an employee) in or in
               connection with the electricity industry for or on behalf of an
               authority engaged in that industry in Queensland, whether the
               person is engaged to carry out that work by that last-mentioned
               authority or by another person.

(2) Without limiting the operation of section 3, but subject to sub-section
(1) of this section, expressions used in this Act that are also used in the
Conciliation and Arbitration Act have, in this Act, unless the contrary
intention appears, the same respective meanings as those expressions have in
the Conciliation and Arbitration Act.