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1968
Copyright
No. 63
“the Crown” includes the Crown in right of a State and also includes the Administration of a Territory of the Commonwealth;
“the minimum royalty”, in relation to a record, means the amounts applicable in respect of the record under sub-section (5.) of section 56, and sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of section 57, of this Act or, if those provisions are affected by regulations made for the purposes of section 58 of this Act, under those provisions as so affected;
“the National Librarian” has the same meaning as in the National Library Act 1960–1967;
“the National Library” means the National Library established under the National Library Act 1960–1967;
“the royalty", in relation to a record, means the amount applicable in respect of the record under sub-section (1.) of section 56 of this Act or, if that sub-section is affected by regulations made for the purposes of section 58 of this Act, under that sub-section as so affected;
“will" includes a codicil;
“wireless telegraphy" means the emitting or receiving, otherwise than over a path that is provided by a material substance, of electromagnetic energy;
“wireless telegraphy apparatus" means an appliance or apparatus for the purpose of transmitting or receiving sounds or visual images by means of wireless telegraphy;
“work" means a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work;
“work of joint authorship" means a work that has been produced by the collaboration of two or more authors and in which the contribution of each author is not separate from the contribution of the other author or the contributions of the other authors;
“writing" means a mode of representing or reproducing words, figures or symbols in a visible form, and "written" has a corresponding meaning.

Residence in a country not affected by temporary absence. 11. For the purposes of this Act, a person who, at a material time, was ordinarily resident in a country (including Australia) but was temporary absent from that country shall be treated as if he had been resident in that country at that time.

References to Parliament. 12. A reference in this Act to a Parliament shall be read as a reference to the Parliament of the Commonwealth or of a State or of a Territory of the Commonwealth.

Acts comprised in copyright. 13.—(1.) A reference in this Act to an act comprised in the copyright in a work or other subject-matter shall be read as a reference to any act that, under this Act, the owner of the copyright has the exclusive right to do.