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Australian Communications Authority Act 1997
56ACA to maintain Register of policy notifications and Ministerial directions
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##### 56 ACA to maintain Register of policy notifications and Ministerial directions
(1) The ACA is to maintain a Register in which the ACA includes:
(a) all policies notified to the ACA under section 28 of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997; and
(b) all directions given to the ACA under section 12.
(2) The Register may be maintained by electronic means.
(3) A person may, on payment of the charge (if any) fixed by a determination under section 53:
(a) inspect the Register; and
(b) make a copy of, or take extracts from, the Register.
(4) For the purposes of this section, if the Register is maintained by electronic means, a person is taken to have made a copy of, or taken an extract from, the Register if the ACA gives the person a printout of, or of the relevant parts of, the Register.
(5) If a person requests that a copy be provided in an electronic form, the ACA may provide the relevant information:
(a) on a data processing device; or
(b) by way of electronic transmission.
(6) In this section:
> data processing device means any article or material (for example, a disk) from which information is capable of being reproduced, with or without the aid of any other article or device.