It must be carefully considered what the consequences of the aforementioned change of the substance definition are for other pieces of legislation that address substances as such.
Given the woolliness of the definition of terrorism in UK legislation, this is not an easy task.
Mr. Bianchi said the charges against the Morristown students fit the definition of bullying in the legislation.
But backers of the provisions said that action was overdue on expanding the definition of those affected by legislation that originally was crafted to protect victims of crimes committed on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin.
Rhonda Copelon, a professor of law at the City University of New York who was an author of the international law on rape as a war crime, says the bill also could make it impossible to prosecute rape or sexual assault as torture, because the definition of torture in the legislation requires proof of specific intent to commit the crime.
Under the narrow definition of discrimination that the legislation covers, you don't have to be a card carrying member of the National Front screaming racist slogans in the street to be a racist.
Russ said the federal government is attempting to change the traditional definition of marriage, so his legislation would place the responsibility for officiating marriages in the hands of clergy.
Just as that law was criticised for lacking a clear definition of foul language, the new legislation on artistic works does not specify which words exactly are to be banned.
The A.D.A. Amendments Act expanded the original legislation's definition of disability to include impairments in "caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working".
And when Greg Miles, who had at the time been assistant secretary of the ministerial and parliamentary services division of the Department of Finance for eight years, gave evidence in the Slipper appeal hearing, the following exchange occurred (as recorded in the judgment); "There is no definition of parliament business in the legislation, is there?" Miles: "No there is not".
