Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) The Recorder may cause to be made a transparency of any dealing, map, plan, or document that is in his possession or custody or under his control and may, subject to the Archives Act 1983, keep that transparency in lieu of, or in addition to, the dealing, map, plan, or document of which it is a transparency.
(2) Where the Recorder, pursuant to subsection (1), keeps a transparency in lieu of a dealing, map, plan, or document, he may –
(a) deliver the dealing, map, plan, or document to any person who satisfies the Recorder that he intends to preserve it for historical purposes; or
(b) destroy the dealing, map, plan, or document.
(3) In this section,
"transparency", in relation to any dealing, map, plan or document, means –(a) a developed negative or positive photograph of that dealing, map, plan or document (in this definition referred to as an original photograph) made on a transparent base by means of light reflected from, or transmitted through, the dealing, map, plan or document; or
(b) a copy of an original photograph made by the use of photosensitive material on a transparent base placed in surface contact with the original photograph; or
(c) any one of a series of copies of an original photograph, the first of the series being made by the use of photosensitive material on a transparent base placed in surface contact with a copy referred to in paragraph (b), and each succeeding copy in the series being made in the same manner from any preceding copy in the series.