Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL ACT 1980 - SECT 5

  (1)   The functions of the Memorial are:

  (a)   to maintain and develop the national memorial referred to in subsection   6(1) of the Australian War Memorial Act 1962 as a national memorial of Australians who have died:

  (i)   on or as a result of active service; or

  (ii)   as a result of any war or warlike operations in which Australians have been on active service;

  (b)   to develop and maintain, as an integral part of the national memorial referred to in paragraph   ( a), a national collection of historical material;

  (c)   to exhibit, or to make available for exhibition by others, historical material from the memorial collection or historical material that is otherwise in the possession of the Memorial;

  (d)   to conduct, arrange for and assist in research into matters pertaining to Australian military history; and

  (e)   to disseminate information relating to:

  (i)   Australian military history;

  (ii)   the national memorial referred to in paragraph   ( a);

  (iii)   the memorial collection; and

  (iv)   the Memorial and its functions.

  (2)   The Memorial shall use every endeavour to make the most advantageous use of the memorial collection in the national interest.