"person" includes a public office and a body (whether or not incorporated).
"public office" --
(a) means each of the following--
(i) a department, office,
commission, board, corporation, agency, service or instrumentality exercising
a function of a branch of the Government of the State,
(ii) a body, whether
incorporated or not, established for a public purpose,
(xii) a political office holder, other than the
Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly, within the meaning of
the Members of Parliament Staff Act 2013 ,
(xiii) a body, office or
institution, whether or not it is a public office under another subparagraph
of this paragraph, that exercises a public function and is declared by the
regulations to be a public office for the purposes of this Act,
(ii) a justice of the peace within
the meaning of the Justices of the Peace Act 2002 , or
(iii) another
individual or a private sector entity, except to the extent that section 8
applies.
"record" means any document or other source of information compiled, recorded
or stored in written form or on film, or by electronic process, or in any
other manner or by any other means.
"State archive" means a State record that Museums of History NSW has control
of under this Act.
"State collecting institution" means each of the following--
(a) Art Gallery
of New South Wales Trust,
(b) Australian Museum Trust,
(c) Museums of
History NSW,
(d) Trustees of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences,
(e)
National Parks and Wildlife Service,
(f) Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain
Trust,
(g) Library Council of New South Wales (in respect of the State
Library of New South Wales),