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58A. Special provision regarding certain holders of statutory offices
       58B. Special provision regarding certain fixed-term employees
 61. Election for lump sum benefit in case of involuntary retirement
 62. Payment of productivity benefit
 63. Election that Division apply
 64. Savings

PART 10—FURTHER AMENDMENTS

 65. Schedule of amendments

SCHEDULE

FURTHER AMENDMENTS

Prime Minister and Cabinet
(Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994

No. 33 of 1994

An Act to amend various Acts relating to matters dealt with
within the portfolio of the Prime Minister, to amend certain
Acts in relation to dealings with Cabinet notebooks and
similar documents, to make consequential amendments of
the Superannuation Act 1976, and for related purposes

[Assented to 15 March 1994]

  The Parliament of Australia enacts:

PART 1—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1994.

Commencement

2.(1) Except for subsection 15(1), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Subsection 15(1) is to be taken to have commenced on 25 June 1984, immediately after the commencement of section 3 of the Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 1984.

PART 2—AMENDMENTS OF THE ARCHIVES ACT 1983

Principal Act

  3. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Archives Act 19831.

Interpretation

4. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the definition of "Commonwealth record" in subsection (1) "but does not include a record that is a Cabinet notebook, is exempt material, or is a register or guide maintained in accordance with Part VIII" and substituting "but does not include a record that is exempt material or is a register or guide maintained in accordance with Part VIII".

  5. After section 22 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Cabinet notebooks

"22A.(1) For the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to Cabinet notebooks, a Cabinet notebook is in the open access period if a period of 50 years has elapsed since the end of the year ending on 31 December in which the Cabinet notebook came into existence.

  "(2) Subsection 3(7) does not apply in relation to Cabinet notebooks.".

Application

  6. The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, applies in relation to:

     (a) meetings of the Cabinet or of a committee of the Cabinet held before or after the commencement of this Part; and

  (b) documents created before or after the commencement of this Part.

PART 3—AMENDMENTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL ACT 1978

Principal Act

7. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Australian Science and Technology Council Act 19782.

Definitions

  8. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended:

     (a) by omitting the definition of "member" and substituting the following definition:

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