Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

NATIONAL GALLERY REGULATIONS 1982 - REG 7

(1)

A person must not, in a Gallery building or on Gallery land:

(a)

touch, interfere with or engage in conduct that damages a work of art; or

(b)

fail to obey a direction of a security officer given in the exercise of his or her powers under these Regulations; or

(c)

engage in conduct that exposes or causes to be exposed for show, sale or hire any article for use or consumption by a member of the public if the person does not have the consent in writing of the Council; or

(d)

fail to obey a notice displayed in the Gallery building or on Gallery land that is issued by the authority of the Council and bears a statement to that effect; or

(e)

if the person is carrying a prescribed article — fail to deposit the prescribed article at the place in the Gallery building designated by the Council for the purpose.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.

(2)

Strict liability applies to paragraphs (1) (b), (d) and (e).

(3)

A person must not:

(a)

allow an animal belonging to the person or in his or her charge to enter or remain in a Gallery building if the animal is not a guide dog for a person with a hearing or visual impairment; or

(b)

attach any article to, write upon or engage in conduct that defaces a Gallery building or any wall or fence on Gallery land; or

(c)

bring any food or liquid that is not medication into a Gallery building; or

(d)

consume any food or drink that is not medication within a Gallery building in an area that is not set aside by the Council for that purpose; or

(e)

smoke in an area of a Gallery building that is not an area in which smoking is permitted; or

(f)

enter, or remain in, an area of a Gallery building or of Gallery land if:

(i)

a properly placed notice declares that that area is not open to the public; and

(ii)

the person does not have the consent of the Council or a person authorised by the Council to give consents for this paragraph.

Penalty:   5 penalty units.

(4)

In this regulation:

(a)

an umbrella, an aerosol container or any other article that is capable of being used to damage a work of art; and

(b)

a bag, case, parcel or other container that cannot be wholly enclosed within a cube each side of which is 300 millimetres in length.

(a) was issued by the authority of the Council and bears a statement to that effect; and

(b) is clearly displayed at the entrance to the area of the Gallery building or Gallery land to which it relates.