of an electronic communication means a person who is intended by the originator to receive the electronic communication, but does not include a person acting as an intermediary with respect to the electronic communication.

means a computer program or an electronic or other automated means used to initiate an action or respond to data messages in whole or in part, without review or intervention by a natural person each time an action is initiated or a response is generated by the system.

means:

(a) a Minister; or

(b) an officer or employee of the Commonwealth; or

(c) a person who holds or performs the duties of an office under a law of the Commonwealth; or

includes that can reasonably be inferred from the conduct of the person concerned.

includes the whole or part of a computer program within the meaning of the

Copyright Act 1968

.

means any article or material (for example, a disk) from which information is capable of being reproduced, with or without the aid of any other article or device.

means:

(a) a communication of information in the form of data, text or images by means of guided and/or unguided electromagnetic energy; or

means in the form of data, text, images or speech.

means a system for generating, sending, receiving, storing or otherwise processing electronic communications.

includes software requirements.

means a specified in the regulations.

means a body that is not carried on for the purposes of profit or gain to its individual members and is, by the terms of the body’s constitution, prohibited from making any distribution, whether in money, property or otherwise, to its members.

of an electronic communication means a person by whom, or on whose behalf, the electronic communication has been sent or generated before storage, if any, but does not include a person acting as an intermediary with respect to the electronic communication.

of a contract includes non‐ of the contract.

, in relation to a government, an authority of a government or a non‐profit body, means a place where any operations or activities are carried out by that government, authority or body.

includes a of a non‐commercial nature.

(2) Before 1 July 2001, in this Act (other than this section):