In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
Countrywide means Countrywide Banking Corporation Limited, a duly incorporated company having its registered office at Auckland
depositor, in relation to United, includes a terminating depositor
Inland Revenue Acts means the Acts specified in the Schedule of the Tax Administration Act 1994
instrument includes—
(a) any instrument (other than this Act) of any form or kind that creates, evidences, modifies, or extinguishes rights, interests, or liabilities or would do so if it or a copy of it were lodged, filed, or registered under any enactment; and
instrument by way of security has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Chattels Transfer Act 1924
land has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Land Transfer Act 1952
liabilities means liabilities, debts, charges, duties, and obligations of every description (whether present or future, actual or contingent, and whether payable or to be observed or performed in New Zealand or elsewhere)
property means property of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, real or personal, corporeal or incorporeal and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes—
(c) rights, interests, and claims of every kind in or to property, whether arising from, accruing under, created or evidenced by, or the subject of, an instrument or otherwise and whether liquidated or unliquidated, actual, contingent, or prospective
rights means all rights, powers, privileges, and immunities, whether actual, contingent, or prospective
security means a mortgage, submortgage or charge (whether legal or equitable), debenture, bill of exchange, promissory note, guarantee, indemnity, defeasance, hypothecation, instrument by way of security, lien, pledge, or other security for the payment of money or for the discharge of any other obligation or liability, and in any case whether upon demand or otherwise, whether present or future and whether actual or contingent; and includes an agreement or undertaking to give or execute, whether upon demand or otherwise, any of the foregoing
subsidiary has the same meaning as in the Companies Act 1955
terminating depositor means the holder of a terminating deposit in United, being a deposit that arises from the conversion of a terminating share in what was formerly United Building Society consequent upon the conversion of that society into a company pursuant to Part 7A of the Building Societies Act 1965
undertaking, in relation to United, means the property, rights, and liabilities of United
United means United Bank Limited, a duly incorporated company having its registered office at Auckland.