means a proceeding of a civil nature between parties, and includes a counterclaim.

has the same meaning as in regulation 5 of the Australian Citizenship Regulations.

means a representation, fixed in any material form, of the three‐dimensional location of the active and passive elements and interconnections making up an integrated circuit.

has the meaning given in section 8.

means the exclusive rights specified in section 17 in relation to an eligible layout.

means a foreign country declared by the regulations to be an for the purposes of this Act.

means an original circuit layout:

(a) the maker of which was, at the time the layout was made, an eligible person; or

(b) that was first commercially exploited in Australia or in an eligible foreign country.

means:

(a) an Australian citizen, an Australian protected person or a person resident in Australia;

(b) a body corporate incorporated by or under a law in force in a State or Territory;

means a licence in writing, signed by or on behalf of the owner or prospective owner of EL rights, authorising the licensee, to the exclusion of all other persons, to do an act that, under this Act, the owner would, but for the licence, have the exclusive right to do.

has the meaning given in section 9.

means EL rights that will come into existence at a future time or on the happening of a future event.

means a circuit, whether in a final form or an intermediate form, the purpose, or one of the purposes, of which is to perform an electronic function, being a circuit in which the active and passive elements, and any of the interconnections, are integrally formed in or on a piece of material.

, in relation to a circuit layout, includes any form of storage (whether visible or not) from which the layout, or a substantial part of it, can be reproduced.

, in relation to an owner of EL rights or the exclusive licensee of those rights, means the exclusive licensee or the owner, respectively.

means:

(a) in relation to future EL rights that are not the subject of an agreement of the kind referred to in subsection 44(1)—the person who will be the owner of those rights when they come into existence; or

, in relation to an eligible layout, means the period beginning on the day on which the layout was made and ending: