In the construction and for the purposes of this Act, the word }Institution~ shall include any Public Library, Public Museum, Working Men's Institute, Mechanics' Institute, Lodge of Freemasons, Lodge of Oddfellows, Agricultural Society, Lodge of Good Templars, Temperance Society, a corporation that is a friendly society within the meaning of section 16C of the Life Insurance Act 1995 of the Commonwealth, and any Association holding lands in the said Colony granted by the Crown to the Trustees thereof for a public purpose and the word }institution~ shall also include any Trade Union and Trades and Labour Council and any Association in which, or in any trustees for which, any Trades Hall or land acquired or held for the purpose of a Trades Hall is vested.

[Section 2 amended by No. 39 of 1923 s.2; No. 26 of 1999 s.105.]