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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 77
Part VII--Espionage and official secrets 77 Interpretation
- (1)
- In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:
article includes any thing, substance or material.
cipher includes:
- (a)
- a code or cryptogram;
- (b)
- a system, method, device or machine whereby a
cipher, code or cryptogram may be created; and
- (c)
- a code word, password or identification signal.
information means information of any kind
whatsoever, whether true or false and whether in a
material form or not, and includes:
- (a)
- an opinion; and
- (b)
- a report of a conversation.
model includes design, pattern and specimen.
plan includes a written record of a survey or of
a bearing or measurement taken for the purpose of fixing
the position of a place.
sketch includes a representation of a place or
thing.
the Commonwealth includes the Territories.
- (2)
- In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:
- (a)
- expressions referring to obtaining, collecting,
recording, using, having in possession, communicating,
receiving or retaining include obtaining, collecting,
recording, using, having in possession, communicating,
receiving or retaining in whole or in part, and
whether the thing or information itself, or only the
substance, effect or description of the thing or
information, is obtained, collected, recorded, used,
possessed, communicated, received or retained;
- (b)
- expressions referring to obtaining or retaining any
sketch, plan, photograph, model, cipher, note,
document, article or information include copying or
causing to be copied the whole or a part of the
sketch, plan, photograph, model, cipher, note,
document, article or information; and
- (c)
- expressions referring to the communication of any
sketch, plan, photograph, model, cipher, note,
document, article or information include the transfer
or transmission, or the publishing, of the sketch,
plan, photograph, model, cipher, note, document,
article or information.
- (3)
- A reference in the Part to a sketch, plan, photograph,
model, cipher, note, document or article or to information
shall be read as including a reference to a copy of, a
part of or a copy of a part of a sketch, plan, photograph,
model, cipher, note, document or article or information.
- (4)
- For the purposes of this Part, a place that is occupied
by, or a thing that is under the control of, the
Commonwealth shall be deemed to belong to the
Commonwealth.
- (5)
- This Part applies to and in relation to a sketch, plan,
photograph, model, cipher, note, document or article by
whomsoever it is made and whatsoever information it
contains.
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