1Archives (Discretionary Service Charges) Determination 2023

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms

 

Archives (Discretionary Service Charges) Determination 2023

I, Simon Froude, Director‑General of the National Archives of Australia, make the following determination.

Dated: 20 July 2023

 

Simon Froude

Director‑General of the National Archives of Australia

 

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

6  Charges for discretionary services

Schedule 1—Repeals

Archives (Discretionary Service Charges) Determination 2021

Archives (Discretionary Service Charges – Agency Digitisation) Determination 2021

1  Name

  This is the Archives (Discretionary Service Charges) Determination 2023.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 11 September 2023.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 69A of the Archives Act 1983.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Act means the Archives Act 1983.

AQP is Archival Quality Testing.

audio-visual format means any item in audio, video, motion picture film or motion picture film sound format.

audio-visual title means a core descriptive record that represents, in part or whole, the contents of an individual production, program or recording in either its original form or a variation of its original form.

corporate Commonwealth entity has the same meaning as in paragraph 11(a) of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

GST has the same meaning as in section 195-1 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.

item is the smallest discrete unit used by the Archives to describe a record in a series for purposes related to the care, management, transfer or retrieval of the record; for audio-visual records, multiple items may be required to make up a complete audio-visual title.

Example: For paper files:

(a) if the file is divided into parts—each of the parts is a separate item; and