Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Access to a public record may be given to the applicant--
(a) by allowing the applicant a reasonable opportunity to inspect the record; or
(b) by giving the applicant a copy of the record; or
(c) if the record is one to which subsection (2), (3) or (4) applies--by the form of access stated in the subsection.
(2) Access may be given by making arrangements for the applicant to hear the sounds or view the images or writings if the record is something from which sounds or visual images or writings are capable of being reproduced.
(3) Access may be given by giving the applicant a written transcript of the words recorded or contained in the record if the record is one--
(a) by which words are recorded in a way in which they are capable of being reproduced in the form of sound; or
(b) in which words are contained in the form of shorthand writing or in a codified form.
(4) Access may be given by giving the applicant a written document containing the information if--
(a) the record is not a written record; and
(b) the archivist or the responsible public authority could create a written document containing the information in the record using equipment that is usually available to it for retrieving or collating electronically stored information.
(5) If the applicant asks for access in a particular and reasonably practical way, access must be given in that way.
(6) However, access may be given in another way decided by the archivist if giving access to the record in the way requested by the applicant--
(a) would interfere unreasonably with the operations of the archives or the responsible public authority; or
(b) would be detrimental to the preservation of the record; or
(c) would be inappropriate, having regard to the physical nature of the record; or
(d) would involve an infringement of copyright of a person other than the State.
(7) The archivist may--
(a) impose reasonable conditions on access to a public record; and
(b) if access is given by way of a copy or transcript of a public record--impose a reasonable charge for the copy or transcript.
(8) This section does not prevent the archivist giving access to a public record in another form agreed to by the applicant.