Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) The Secretary may do all things necessary or convenient to be done for or in connection with, or incidental to, the performance of his functions under this Act.
(2) Subsection (1) is not limited by any other provision of this Act conferring a power on the Secretary.
(3) The Secretary has power, for or in connection with the performance of his functions –
(a) to make arrangements with the Parliamentary Library Committee for the provision of legislative reference services and other library services for the officers and members of Parliament;
(b) to make arrangements with any Agency, within the meaning of the State Service Act 2000, or any other body, for the purpose of providing libraries and library services for that Agency or body on such terms and conditions as may be agreed from time to time;
(c) to make arrangements with local authorities for the purpose of providing libraries and library services for officers and employees of such authorities on such terms and conditions as may be agreed from time to time;
(d) to lend or make available to any person, society, institution, or body, on such terms and conditions as he thinks fit, any books or other personal property, other than property referred to in clause 4 of Schedule 5, of which he has the care and control;
(e) to provide, on such terms and conditions as the Minister may determine, library services in addition to those referred to above, as may be desirable;
(f) to provide, on such terms and conditions as the Minister may determine, acquisition, cataloguing, and processing services, consultative and advisory services, and information services, to any library in the State;
(g) to permit any person, society, institution, or body, on and subject to such terms as he may determine, to make use of any premises under his control;
(h) to receive or purchase any books or other personal property for the purposes of this Act;
(i) to accept the transfer to the State of any library on such terms and conditions as the Minister agrees;
(j) subject to section 18, to dispose of by way of sale, exchange, or otherwise, books or other personal property no longer required for the purposes of this Act on such terms and conditions as the Minister may determine; and
(k) to collate and disseminate information relating to libraries and library services.