Senate debates Higher Education Legislation Amendment (2007 Budget Measures) Bill 2007
In Committee
George Brandis Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for the Arts and Sport
1:10 pm
Surely, Senator Stott Despoja, you are aware that there are many acts of this parliament which use the word ‘substantial’ as a test without providing a statutory definition of that term, because it is a plain English term. The term is used in the Income Tax Assessment Act, the Trade Practices Act and, I think, in various provisions of the Corporations Law. I think it is used in some of the media ownership laws. The use of the term ‘substantial’ without providing a mathematical definition as to what that might mean, but relying on the plain English of the word, is commonplace.
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