Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN CORPORATIONS (APPLICATION OF LAWS) ACT 1989 - SECT 3

    In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"asset" means property of any kind, and includes:

  (a)   any legal or equitable estate or interest (whether present or future, vested or contingent, tangible or intangible) in real or personal property of any description; and

  (b)   any chose in action; and

  (c)   any right, interest or claim of any kind in or in relation to property (whether arising under an instrument or otherwise, and whether liquidated or unliquidated, certain or contingent, accrued or accruing).

"Australia" includes all the external Territories.

"Australian court" means a federal court or a court of a State or Territory.

"Australian law" means:

  (a)   a law in force throughout Australia; or

  (b)   a law of, or in force in, a part of Australia;

and includes the principles and rules of the common law and equity as so in force.

"body" includes an association, entity or society.

"entity" includes an executive entity and, in sections   8 and 9, also includes a legislative or judicial entity.

"foreign corporation" means a body or person incorporated in a place outside Australia.

"incorporate" includes form.

"law" includes written and unwritten law.

"officer" , in relation to a foreign corporation, includes a director, secretary, executive officer, agent or employee of the foreign corporation.

"place" means a place that, in practice, applies a separate system of law.