Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854:section:50:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00854
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 50 (pt 1/5)
Character Range: 188248–190916

50  Reproducing and communicating works by libraries or archives for other libraries or archives
 (1) The officer in charge of a library may request, or cause another person to request, the officer in charge of another library to supply the officer in charge of the first‑mentioned library with a reproduction of an article, or a part of an article, contained in a periodical publication, or of the whole or a part of a published work other than an article contained in a periodical publication, being a periodical publication or a published work held in the collection of a library:
 (a) for the purpose of including the reproduction in the collection of the first‑mentioned library;
 (aa) in a case where the principal purpose of the first‑mentioned library is to provide library services for members of a Parliament—for the purpose of assisting a person who is a member of that Parliament in the performance of the person's duties as such a member; or
 (b) for the purpose of supplying the reproduction to a person who has made a request for the reproduction under section 49.
 (2) Subject to this section, where a request is made by or on behalf of the officer in charge of a library to the officer in charge of another library under subsection (1), an authorized officer of the last‑mentioned library may make, or cause to be made, the reproduction to which the request relates and supply the reproduction to the officer in charge of the first‑mentioned library.
Note: The reproduction could be made from another reproduction of the article or published work in the collection of the other library that was made without infringing copyright because of subsection 113H(1) (Preservation).
 (3) Where, under subsection (2), an authorized officer of a library makes, or causes to be made, a reproduction of the whole or part of a work (including an article contained in a periodical publication) and supplies it to the officer in charge of another library in accordance with a request made under subsection (1):
 (a) the reproduction shall, for all purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been made on behalf of an authorized officer of the other library for the purpose for which the reproduction was requested; and
 (b) an action shall not be brought against the body administering that first‑mentioned library, or against any officer or employee of that library, for infringement of copyright by reason of the making or supplying of that reproduction.
 (4) Subject to this section, if a reproduction of the whole or a part of an article contained in a periodical publication, or of any other published work, is, by virtue of subsection (3), taken to have been made