Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1901 - SECT 2J

    A reference in a provision of an Act to any one or more of the following in connection with court proceedings:

  (a)   a summons;

  (b)   an information;

  (c)   a claim;

  (d)   a complaint;

  (e)   a declaration;

is taken to include a reference to any document through which proceedings may be instituted in a court.

Note:   An example of such a document is a court attendance notice under the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 of New South Wales.