Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts3. Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by omitting the definition of “court” and substituting the following definition:
“ ‘ court', in relation to an application, means—
(a) the court that has jurisdiction under subsection 11 (1) or (2) to determine that application; or
(b) if the Registrar has power to determine that application under subsection 11 (3)—the Registrar;”; and
(b) by adding at the end the following subsection:
“(2) In this Act—
(a) a reference to a person having been convicted of an offence shall be read as including a reference to a person having been charged before a court with an offence, being an offence that the court found to be proved but in respect of which the court did not proceed to conviction; and
(b) a reference to a conviction shall, in relation to an offence referred to in paragraph (a), be read as including a reference to the finding by the court that the offence was proved.”.