Archives Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1998No. 273 1

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Archives Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Archives Act 1983.

Dated 25 August 1998.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

RICHARD ALSTON

Minister for Communications, the Information Economy

and the Arts

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1.   Commencement

1.1   These Regulations commence on gazettal.

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Archives Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

Note   The following note is inserted at the end of regulation 2:

“Note   Words and expressions that are defined in the Act and used in these Regulations have the same meaning in these Regulations as they do in the Act (see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s 46 (1) (a)). For example, subsection 3 (1) of the Act contains a definition of Commonwealth institution and subsection 3 (3A) contains a definition of discretionary service.”.

3.   Regulation 10 (Discretionary services)

3.1   Paragraph 10 (b):

Omit “Part 2 of”.

4.   Regulation 11 (Charges)

4.1   Subregulations 11 (1) to (4):

Omit the subregulations, substitute:

 “11.(1) Subregulation (2) applies if a person is given:

• (a)

  access to a record under paragraph 36 (2) (b) of the Act; or

• (b)

  a copy of the Australian National Guide to Archival Material, or part of the Guide, under subsection 66 (6) of the Act.

 “(2)The Archives may charge the person an amount equal to, or less than, the cost of giving the copy to the person, including the cost of:

• (a)

  film, microfiche, disk or other article given to the person; and

• (b)

  if the person asked for the copy to be posted or delivered—postage or delivery of the copy.

 “(3) Schedule 1 sets out the charges for discretionary services given to a person other than a Commonwealth institution.

 “(4)If a charge for a service mentioned in Schedule 1 is shown as a rate, and the service is given for a period that is or includes part of the period, the charge must be in proportion to the period that the service is given.”.

5.   Schedule 1

5.1   Omit the Schedule, substitute:

 SCHEDULE 1 Subregulation 11 (3)

CHARGES FOR DISCRETIONARY SERVICES

Item	Discretionary service	Amount or rate of charge
1	Sentencing records	$291.50 per metre of records
2	Research conducted by a member of the staff of the Archives ancillary to the sentencing of records	$82.50 per hour
3	Transporting records to the Archives	$38.50 per metre of records
4	Making shelf space available for the storage of records	$11.50 per metre of shelf space per year of storage
5	Making shelf space available in an air-conditioned repository for the storage of records	$19.50 per metre of shelf space per year of storage
6	Making shelf space available in an air-conditioned vault for the storage of records	$20.50 per metre of shelf space per year of storage
7	Serviced storage of sentenced records	(a)   for the first year of storage—$17.00 per metre of records (b)   for each later year of storage—$11.50 per metre of records
8	Serviced storage of unsentenced records	(a)   for the first year of storage—$62.50 per metre of records (b)   for each later year of storage—$57.00 per metre of records
9	Serviced storage of records in an air-conditioned repository	(a)   for the first year of storage—$24.00 per metre of records (b)   for each later year of storage—$19.50 per metre of records
10	Serviced storage of records in an air-conditioned vault	(a)   for the first year of storage—$25.50 per metre of records (b)   for each later year of storage—$20.50 per metre of records
11	Supplying archival containers for storage of records	an amount equal to or less than the cost to the Archives in supplying the containers
12	Searching in normal business hours for a record	$7.00
13	Searching outside normal business hours for a record	$82.50 per hour
14	Destroying records	$9.00 per metre of records
15	Bulk withdrawal of records other than for sentencing	$11.00 per metre of records
16	Training course—full day	$405.00 per person
17	Training course—half day	$220.00 per person

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 1 September 1998.

2. Statutory Rules 1984 No. 100 as amended by 1984 No. 290; 1986 No. 31; 1987 No. 235; 1988 Nos. 256 and 340; 1990 Nos. 184, 393 and 403; 1991 No. 159; 1992 No. 312; 1995 No. 260.