EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
1982 NO. 65
COPYRIGHT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Authority
Section 249 of the Copyright Act (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Background
The Copyright Amendment Act 1980 which came into operation on 1 August 1981 introduced provisions which enable institutions assisting handicapped readers to copy under the statutory licence provisions contained in section 53D.
Institutions Assisting Handicapped Readers
The term ‘institution assisting handicapped readers’ is defined in Section 10 of the Act.
Paragraph (a) of that definition automatically includes educational institutions while paragraph (b) includes any other non-profit institution prescribed by the regulations and having as a principal function the provision of literary or dramatic works to handicapped readers.
Regulation 4A makes provision that for the purposes of paragraph (b) each of the institutions specified in Schedule 2 is declared to be an institution to which that paragraph applies. A number of institutions are currently specified in Schedule 2.
The new Regulation amends Schedule 2 by omitting items 4 and 5 and substituting the following items which include those items 4 and 5 renumbered in appropriate alphabetical order:
“4 | Public Libraries Service | 132 Grey Street, South Brisbane. Qld. 4101 |
5 | Queensland Tape Service for the Handicapped (Inc.) | 65 Nathan Terrace, Yeerongpilly. Qld. 4105 |
6 | Royal Blind Society of New South Wales | 4 Mitchell Street, Enfield, N.S.W. 2134 |
7 | Royal New South Wales Institute for Deaf and Blind Children | Walkley House, 111-115 Chandos Street, St Leonards, N.S.W. 2065 |
8 | Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind | 557 St Kilda Road, Melbourne. Vic. 3004 |
9 | Victorian Council for Handicapped Readers | 16/411 Dandenong Road, Armadale. Vic. 3143”. |