National Library Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)¹

I, PETER JOHN HOLLINGWORTH, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the National Library Act 1960.

Dated 26 June 2002

PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

C. R. KEMP

1              Name of Regulations

                These Regulations are the National Library Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1).

2              Commencement

                These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3              Amendment of National Library Regulations 1994

                Schedule 1 amends the National Library Regulations 1994.

Schedule 1        Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1]           Subregulation 17 (2)

substitute

         (2)   An application for access to library material, or for admission to a reading room, must:

                (a)    be made in a form approved by the Director-General; and

               (b)    specify:

                          (i)    the purpose of access to, and the intended use of, the material; or

                         (ii)    the purpose of admission to the reading room; and

                (c)    include the applicant’s name and address.

Note   The application may, in certain circumstances, be made electronically (see the Electronic Transactions Act 1999).

         (3)   An authorised person may require an applicant to produce, for the authorised person’s inspection, an appropriate form of identification that confirms the details mentioned in paragraph (2) (c).

[2]           Part 5

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Part 5                 Purchase and disposal of assets

23            Higher amounts — purchase and disposal of assets

                For paragraphs 7A (1) (a), (b) and (c) of the Act, the higher amount is $1 000 000.

1.       These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1994 No. 329, as amended by 2001 No. 337.

2.       Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 July 2002.