Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this section, Corporation means the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
(2) The Corporation may make a sound recording of any proceedings of either House of the Parliament or of a joint sitting and shall make a sound recording of any such proceedings when directed so to do by the Chairman or Vice - Chairman of the Committee.
(2A) The Corporation may, with the consent of the Chairman or Vice - Chairman of the Committee, make a visual recording, with or without accompanying sound, of any proceedings of a joint sitting, and shall make such a recording when directed so to do by the Chairman or Vice - Chairman of the Committee.
(3) The Corporation shall, within such period as the Committee from time to time directs, deliver to the Chairman or Vice - Chairman of the Committee any recording made by the Corporation in pursuance of this section.
(4) Where the Committee considers that a recording made by the Corporation in pursuance of this section is of sufficient historic interest to justify its being permanently preserved, the Committee may make such arrangements as it thinks fit for the permanent safe keeping of the recording.
(5) Where the Committee does not make arrangements for the permanent safe keeping of a recording, the Committee shall cause the recording to be destroyed.