This legislation has been repealed.
(1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Attorney-General" means the Attorney General of the State.
"Commonwealth Act" means the National Crime Authority Act 1984 of the Commonwealth.
"Commonwealth Minister" means the Minister of State of the Commonwealth administering the Commonwealth Act.
"hearing" means a hearing for the purposes of a special investigation.
"Minister" means the Minister of the Crown of the State administering this Act.
"prescribed" means prescribed by this Act or by regulations made under this Act.
"Registrar", in relation to a court, means the proper officer, however described, of that court.
"special function" means a special function referred to in section 5 (4).
"special investigation" means an investigation that the Authority is conducting in the performance of its special functions.
(2) Expressions used in this Act that are also used in the Commonwealth Act have in this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the same respective meanings as those expressions have in the Commonwealth Act.
(3) Where the Authority suspects that an offence that is not a relevant offence as defined in section 4 (1) of the Commonwealth Act may be directly or indirectly connected with, or may be a part of, a course of activity involving the commission of a relevant offence as so defined, whether or not the Authority has identified the nature of that relevant offence, the first-mentioned offence shall, for so long only as the Authority so suspects, be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be a relevant offence.