AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY ACT 2005 - SECT 67 ACMA to maintain Register of policy notifications and Ministerial directions

AUSTRALIAN COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA AUTHORITY ACT 2005 - SECT 67

  (1)   The ACMA is to maintain a Register in which the ACMA includes:

  (a)   all directions given to the ACMA under this Act or any other Act; and

  (b)   the contents, immediately before the commencement of section   6 of this Act, of the register maintained under section   56 of the Australian Communications Authority Act 1997 .

  (2)   The Register may be maintained by electronic means.

  (3)   A person may, on payment of the charge (if any) fixed by a determination under section   60:

  (a)   inspect the Register; and

  (b)   make a copy of, or take extracts from, the Register.

  (4)   For the purposes of this section, if the Register is maintained by electronic means, a person is taken to have made a copy of, or taken an extract from, the Register if the ACMA gives the person a printout of, or of the relevant parts of, the Register.

  (5)   If a person requests that a copy be provided in an electronic form, the ACMA may provide the relevant information:

  (a)   on a data processing device; or

  (b)   by way of electronic transmission.

  (6)   In this section :

"data processing device" means any article or material (for example, a disk) from which information is capable of being reproduced, with or without the aid of any other article or device.