Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ARCHIVES ACT 1983 - SECT 3B

                   If a company or association was, immediately before the commencement of this section:

                     (a)  a Commonwealth-controlled company or a Commonwealth-controlled association that was:

                              (i)  not established for a public purpose; and

                             (ii)  not prescribed under paragraph (c) of the definition of authority of the Commonwealth as then in force; or

                     (b)  a Commonwealth-controlled company or a Commonwealth-controlled association that was:

                              (i)  established for a public purpose; but

                             (ii)  taken, under a provision of an Act, never to have been so established;

then, despite paragraph (c) of the definition of authority of the Commonwealth , the company or association is to be taken not to be an authority of the Commonwealth.