State Immunity Act 1979 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 1 · Preliminary
2. Interpretation
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In this Act —
“commercial purposes” means purposes of any transactions or activities that are mentioned in section 5(3);
“court” includes any tribunal or body exercising judicial functions;
“ship” includes a hovercraft.
In this Act —
references to an agreement in sections 4(2) and 15(3) include references to a treaty, convention or other international agreement; and
references to filing and service of a notice of intention to contest or not contest (formerly known as entry of appearance) and judgments in default of a notice of intention to contest or not contest (formerly known as judgments in default of appearance) include references to any corresponding procedures.