Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00855:section:3:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00855
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 4/5)
Character Range: 14212–16902

Minister to whose ministerial responsibilities the record is most closely related.
Royal Commission means a Commissioner or Commissioners appointed by the Governor‑General in the name of the Sovereign to make inquiry and report upon any matter.
Tribunal means the Administrative Review Tribunal.
 (2) For the purposes of this Act, the archival resources of the Commonwealth consist of such Commonwealth records and other material as are of national significance or public interest and relate to:
 (a) the history or government of Australia;
 (b) the legal basis, origin, development, organization or activities of the Commonwealth or of a Commonwealth institution;
 (c) a person who is, or has at any time been, associated with a Commonwealth institution;
 (d) the history or government of a Territory; or
 (e) an international or other organization the membership of which includes, or has included, the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth institution;
but do not include:
 (f) material that, in the opinion of the Minister, ought to be in the archives of another country or in the archives of an international organization;
 (g) material that relates only or principally to the history or government of a State or the Northern Territory or of a Colony that became part of the Commonwealth, not being:
 (i) Commonwealth records;
 (ii) property referred to in section 85 of the Constitution; or
 (iii) material transferred to the Commonwealth by a State or the Northern Territory under a law or agreement;
 (h) material, other than Commonwealth records, relating only to a place that has been, but has ceased to be, a Territory; or
 (j) exempt material.
 (3) For the purposes of this Act, the Department of Defence shall be deemed to include:
 (a) the Defence Force; and
 (b) the Australian Defence Force Cadets.
 (3A) In this Act, a reference to the provision of a discretionary service for a person is a reference to the doing of an act by the Archives, being an act that the Archives has power to do and that it does at the person's request, other than an act that:
 (a) this Act requires the Archives to do; or
 (b) it is necessary for the Archives to do for the proper performance of its functions.
 (4) For the purposes of this Act, the Australian Federal Police shall be deemed to be an authority of the Commonwealth.
 (5) For the purposes of this Act, a record held by or on behalf of the Parliament or a House of the Parliament shall be taken to be the property of the Commonwealth.
 (6) The regulations may make provision under which, in specified cases or circumstances, records of which the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth institution has, or is entitled to have, possession are to be