Statutory Rules 1984 No. 250¹

National Gallery 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 National Gallery Act 1975.

Dated 20 September 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd) Barry Cohen

Minister of State for

Home Affairs and Environment

Interpretation

1. Regulation 2 of the National Gallery Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after the definition of “certificate” the following definition:

“ ‘exhibition areas’ means those parts of the Gallery building known as Galleries 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8a, 8b, 9, 9a, 10, 10a and 11 and the Level 5 Lounge;”; and

(b) by inserting after the definition of “liquor” the following definition:

“ ‘opening hours’ means the hours determined by the Council as the hours during which the Gallery is to be open to the public;”.

Entry charges

2. Regulation 4 of the National Gallery Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(1) Subject to this regulation, a charge of $2.00 is fixed for entry by a person other than a prescribed person into the exhibition areas during opening hours.”;

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (2) (c) (i) “or an allowance payable under Part VIIa,” and substituting “an allowance payable under Part VIIa, or a rehabilitation allowance payable under Part VIII,”;

(c) by omitting paragraph (2) (e) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(e) a person who is a member of—

(i) the Australian National Gallery Association;

(ii) the Art Museums Association of Australia;

(iii) the Museums Education Association of Australia;

(iv) the Museums Association of Australia;

(v) the International Council of Museums;

(vi) the Institute for Conservation of Cultural Material;

(vii) the Arts Libraries Association (Australia and New Zealand); or

(viii) the Arts Association of Australia.”;

(d) by omitting sub-regulations (3) and (4) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“(3) Subject to sub-regulation (4)—

(a) the Gallery may sell tickets for admission to the exhibition areas for $1.70 each; and

(b) the surrender of such a ticket on a day shall entitle a person to entry to the exhibition areas during opening hours on that day without further payment.

“(4) The number of tickets of the kind referred to in sub-regulation (3) that may be sold to a person on any one occasion shall be not less than 100.

“(5) Where a person is the holder of a ticket issued by the Gallery that entitles him to attend a lecture or other educational or cultural presentation in the exhibition areas commencing during opening hours on a day, the charge fixed by sub-regulation (1) is not payable in respect of the entry by that person into the exhibition areas during opening hours on that day.

“(6) A person who has been admitted to the exhibition areas during opening hours on a day may—

(a) on leaving the exhibition areas, obtain a pass issued by authority of the Council for the purposes of this sub-regulation; and

(b) on surrender of that pass, be re-admitted without further payment to the exhibition areas during opening hours on that day.

“(7) Nothing in this regulation shall be taken to require the payment of any charge in respect of the entry by any person into any part of the Gallery building at the invitation of the Gallery or for purposes connected with the operation of the Gallery, the

maintenance of the national collection, the maintenance, renovation, reconstruction or extension of the Gallery building or the provision of services to the Gallery.”,

Offences

3. Regulation 7 of the National Gallery Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (5) (a) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(a) an overcoat;”

(b) by omitting from paragraph (5) (b) “and” (first occurring) and substituting “an”;

(c) by omitting paragraph (5) (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c) a bag, case, parcel or other container that is not capable of being wholly enclosed within a cube each side of which is 300 millimetres in length.”; and

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (6) “(1)”and substituting “(2)”.

4. After regulation 7 of the National Gallery Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Photographic apparatus

“7a. (1) A person shall not, without the consent in writing of the Council or a person authorized by the Council to give consents for the purposes of this sub-regulation, have in his possession, or use, in the Gallery building any camera or associated equipment.

Penalty: $100.

“(2) Nothing in sub-regulation (1) shall be taken to prohibit a person from bringing a camera or an item of associated equipment into the Gallery building and forthwith depositing it at the counter referred to in paragraph 7(1) (e).”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 September 1984.

2. Statutory Rules 1982 No. 259.

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