Information Infrastructure and Services Statute 2006 (Cth)

THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Australian National University Act 1991

Information Infrastructure and Services Statute 2006

The Council of the Australian National University makes the following Statute under section 50 of the Australian National University Act 1991.

Dated: 8 December 2006.

Allan Hawke

Chancellor

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1       Name of Statute

1.1        This Statute is the Information Infrastructure and Services Statute 2006.

2       Commencement

2.1        This Statute commences on the day after it is registered.

3       Interpretation

3.1In this Statute, unless the contrary intention appears:

information includes data stored in print, digitally or in any other format.

information infrastructure includes the buildings, permanent installations, information services, fixtures, cabling and capital equipment that comprise the underlying system within or by which the University:

(a)   holds, transmits, manages, uses, analyses or accesses information; or

(b)   carries communication.

[Note: information infrastructure is intended to include all premises, installations and fixtures relating to analogue and digital services and library services including hardware and software applications within those premises and installations. Thus, a laboratory, a library or a theatre may form part of the information infrastructure, as may a computer, other hardware and software applications, VCRs, DVDs, sound and recording systems and image projectors.]

information services includes all library, archive, records, computer (hardware and software), network, analogue and digital information services of the University.

Library includes:

(a)   the physical library collections and information resources of the University; and

(b)   archival collections of the University; and

(c)   any place provided by the University for students to carry out their work.

4       Delegation

4.1        The Vice-Chancellor may, in writing, appoint a nominee to exercise the powers of the Vice-Chancellor under the Rules.

4.2        Subject to any direction by the Vice-Chancellor, the nominee exercises the powers of the Vice-Chancellor as if the person were the Vice-Chancellor.

4.3        Nothing in this section prevents the Vice-Chancellor performing any of the functions, or exercising any of the powers, given to a nominee under this section.

5       Rules

5.1        The Council may make Rules not inconsistent with this Statute, prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Statute to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Statute and, in particular may make Rules about the control, management and discipline of the information infrastructure or the information services.

5.2        The power to make Rules under subsection 5.1 is in addition to the powers conferred on the Council by the Discipline Statute.

6       Repeal and saving

6.1        The Library Statute and the Information Technology Services Statute 1999, as amended and in force immediately before the commencement of this Statute, are repealed.

6.2        Rules and Orders made under the Library Statute, as amended and in force immediately before the commencement of this Statute, continue in force as if they were made under this Statute and may be amended or repealed accordingly.

6.3        Rules and Orders made under the Information Technology Services Statute 1999, as amended and in force immediately before the commencement of this Statute, continue in force as if they were made under this Statute and may be amended or repealed accordingly.