Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 38I

    For the purposes of sections   48A and 104A of the Copyright Act 1968 :

  (a)   the part of the joint Department that is headed by the Parliamentary Librarian and that provides library services is taken to be a library the principal purpose of which is to provide library services for Members of the Parliament; and

  (b)   the Parliamentary Librarian is taken to be the officer in charge of that library; and

  (c)   a Parliamentary Service employee authorised by the Parliamentary Librarian to act on his or her behalf in relation to the provision of the library services is taken to be an authorised officer of that library.

Note:   Sections   48A and 104A of the Copyright Act 1968 apply only in relation to things done for the sole purpose of assisting a person who is a Member of a Parliament in the performance of the person's duties as such a Member.