Preliminary Part I Section 4 residential accommodation includes accommodation in a dwelling-house, flat, hotel, motel or boarding-house or on a camping ground. services includes services consisting of the provision of facilities by way of banking or insurance or of facilities for grants, loans, credit or finance. Torres Strait Islander means a person who is a descendant of an indigenous inhabitant of the Torres Strait Islands. vehicle includes a ship, an aircraft and a hovercraft. (2) A reference in this Act to an Australian ship or aircraft shall be construed as a reference to a ship or aircraft registered in Australia or belonging to or in the possession of the Commonwealth or a State. (3) For the purposes of this Act, refusing or failing to do an act shall be deemed to be the doing of an act and a reference to an act includes a reference to such a refusal or failure. (4) A reference in this Act to the doing of an act by a person includes a reference to the doing of an act by a person in association with other persons. 4 Extension to external Territories This Act extends to every external Territory. 5 Additional operation of Act Without prejudice to its effect apart from this section, this Act also has, by force of this section, the effect it would have if: (a) there were added at the end of sections 11 and 13 the words “or by reason that that other person or any relative or associate of that other person is or has been an immigrant”; (b) there were added at the end of subsections 12(1) and 15(1) the words “or by reason that that second person or any relative or associate of that second person is or has been an immigrant”; Racial Discrimination Act 1975 Compilation No. 17 Compilation date: 10/12/15 ComLaw Authoritative Act C2016C00089 3 Registered: 29/1/16