Archives Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 311

Archives Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Archives Act 1983.

Dated 13 March 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Barry Cohen

Minister of State for Arts, Heritage

and Environment

Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations” means the Archives Regulations.

Charges

2. Regulation 8 of the Principal Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(2) The charges set out in Part II of Schedule 1 apply in respect of—

(a) the keeping of records of a Commonwealth institution specified in Schedule 2; and

(b) making records available to a Commonwealth institution specified in Schedule 2 or to a Commonwealth institution that has succeeded to the relevant functions of that institution,

being records—

(c) that do not form part of the archival resources of the Commonwealth; and

(d) that are temporarily in the custody of the Archives or a person in accordance with an arrangement under section 64 of the Act.”.

(S.R. 48/85)—Cat. No.  12/7.2.1986

Schedule 1

3. Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in the heading to Part II of that Schedule “, AND MAKING RECORDS AVAILABLE TO,” after “FOR”;

(b) by omitting from item 2 in Part II of that Schedule “8 (2) (b)” and substituting “8 (2) (d)”;

(c) by omitting from item 3 in Part II of that Schedule “8 (2) (b)” and substituting “8 (2) (d)”; and

(d) by adding at the end of Part II of that Schedule the following items:

 

“4 In respect of making records available to a Commonwealth institution referred to in paragraph 8 (2) (b)—a charge in respect of the retrieval, issue, return and relocation of each record or container of records	Where the record is made available otherwise than in a container in which the record is kept by the Archives— $2.50 in respect of that record
	Where the record is made available in one or more containers in which the record is kept by the Archives—$2.50 in respect of each such container in which the record is so made available
“5 In respect of making records available for inspection by an officer of a Commonwealth institution referred to in paragraph 8 (2) (b)—a charge in respect of each hour, or part of an hour, during which a member of the staff of the Archives supervises the inspection of such records	$20.00 per hour or part of an hour

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 March 1986.

2. Statutory Rules 1984 No. 100 as amended by 1984 No. 290.

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