Archives Act 1983

Subject to this section, the regulations may provide that all or any of the provisions of Divisions 2 and 3 are, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions as are prescribed, to apply to all or any of the records referred to in section 18 or subsection 19(1), and may provide that those provisions are so to apply subject to such modifications as are prescribed.

Regulations shall not be made for the purposes of subsection (1) in relation to the application of the provisions of Divisions 2 and 3 to records in the possession of the Senate, the House of Representatives or a Parliamentary Department, unless there has been consultation between the Minister and:

in the case of records in the possession of the Senate or of the Department of the Senate—the President of the Senate;

in the case of records in the possession of the House of Representatives or of the Department of the House of Representatives—the Speaker of the House of Representatives; or

in the case of records in the possession of a Parliamentary Department other than the Department of the Senate or the Department of the House of Representatives—both the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives;

Regulations shall not be made for the purposes of subsection (1) in relation to the application of the provisions of Divisions 2 and 3 to records in the possession of a court or of a registry of a court unless there has been consultation between the Minister and the Chief Justice or Chief Judge of that court, or, if there is no Chief Justice or Chief Judge, the judicial officer of that court whom the Minister is satisfied has, from time to time, the principal responsibility for the administration of the business of that court, concerning the application of those provisions to those records.