Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The Archives may do all things that are necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with the performance of its functions and, in particular, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may:
(a) establish and control repositories or other facilities to house or exhibit material of the Archives and, in association with a State, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory or other person, control repositories or other facilities in which material of the Archives is housed or exhibited;
(b) undertake the survey, appraisal, accessioning, arrangement, description and indexing of Commonwealth records;
(c) make arrangements for the acquisition by the Commonwealth of, or of copyright in relation to, or arrangements relating to the custody of, material that forms part of the archival resources of the Commonwealth;
(d) chronicle and record matters relating to the structure and functioning of Commonwealth institutions or other matters of archival significance and make records for the purpose of adding to the archival resources of the Commonwealth;
(e) make copies, by microfilming or otherwise, of archival material, but not so as to infringe copyright (other than copyright owned by the Commonwealth) subsisting in the material;
(f) arrange for the publication of material forming part of the archival resources of the Commonwealth or works based on such material, but not so as to infringe copyright (other than copyright owned by the Commonwealth) subsisting in the material or works;
(g) publish indexes of, and other guides to, archival material;
(h) authorize the disposal or destruction of Commonwealth records;
(j) on request, assist Commonwealth institutions in the training of persons responsible for the keeping of current Commonwealth records;
(k) train, or assist in the training of, persons, other than persons responsible for the keeping of current Commonwealth records, for work in connection with records and other archival material;
(l) obtain and maintain equipment for use in retrieving, or otherwise obtaining, information from records; and
(m) provide information and facilities for persons using the material of the Archives.
(2) Where, in the performance of its functions, the Archives enters into arrangements to accept the care of records from a person other than a Commonwealth institution, those arrangements may provide for the extent (if any) to which the Archives or other persons are to have access to those records and any such arrangements have effect notwithstanding anything contained in Division 3 of Part V.
(3) Where an arrangement entered into by the Archives to accept the care of records from a person other than a Commonwealth institution relates to a Commonwealth record, then, to the extent that that arrangement, in so far as it relates to such a record, is inconsistent with a provision of Part V, that provision shall prevail.