Archives (Discretionary Service Charges- Agency Digitisation) Determination 2016 (Cth)

Archives (Discretionary Service Charges- Agency Digitisation) Determination 2016

I, David Fricker, Director‑General of the National Archives of Australia, make the following determination.

Dated   25 October 2016

David Fricker

Director‑General of the National Archives of Australia

Contents

1............ Name............................................................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement............................................................................................................. 1

3............ Authority....................................................................................................................... 1

4............ Definitions..................................................................................................................... 1

5............ Charges for discretionary services................................................................................. 1

1  Name

This is the Archives (Discretionary Service Charges- Agency Digitisation) Determination 2016.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under section 69A of the Archives Act 1983.

4  Definitions

In this instrument:

Act means the Archives Act 1983.

Commonwealth record and record have the same meaning as in section 3 of the Act.

fragile item includes:

(a)an item that is easily broken or damaged;

(b)an item containing multiple paper sizes;

(c)an item with more than one way of joining a document; or,

(d)an item that for any other reason requires:

i.pre-digitisation disassembling; or,

ii.needs quality checks on reassembly.

an item is the smallest discrete unit used by the Archives to describe a record in a series for purposes related to the care, management, transfer or retrieval of the record.

Example:    For records in a file:

(a)  if the file is divided into parts—each of the parts is a separate item; and

(b)  if the file is not divided into parts—the file is a single item.

5  Charges for Agency Digitisation Service

For section 69A of the Act, the amount or rate of charge for a discretionary service for a Commonwealth institution mentioned in a row in the following table is the amount or rate of charge set out in that row.

Charges for Agency Digitisation Service
Row	Digitisation Services	Amount or rate of charge
1	Digitisation charges for non-fragile items	$19.59 per item plus $0.68 per page
2	Digitisation charges for fragile items	$19.59 per item plus $1.27 per page