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STATE RECORDS ACT 1998 - SECT 60
The giving of access
60 The giving of access
(1) The person required to give access to a State record under this Act (the
"access provider" ) is-- (a) if the record is under the control of Museums of
History NSW--Museums of History NSW, or
(b) otherwise--the public office that
has control of the record.
(2) A person who is entitled to be given access to
a State record under this Act is entitled to be given that access in any of
the following ways-- (a) by being given a reasonable opportunity to inspect
the record,
(b) by being provided with a copy of the record,
(c) in the case
of a record from which information can be produced or made available by means
of equipment (such as a computer or projector), by being provided with access
to that information by the use of that equipment,
(d) in the case of a record
of words in the form of a sound recording or in the form of a record in
shorthand or other encoded material, by being provided with a written
transcript of the words recorded.
(3) A person is entitled to choose the way
in which the person is to be given access but the access provider may decide
to give access in some other way if of the opinion that access in the way
chosen by the person-- (a) is not reasonably practicable because the
access provider cannot readily access any equipment necessary to give access
in the way chosen, or
(b) would interfere unreasonably with the operations of
the access provider, or
(c) would not be appropriate, having regard to the
physical nature of the record, or
(d) would be detrimental to the proper
preservation of the record, or
(e) would involve an infringement of
copyright, other than copyright owned by the State, the Commonwealth, another
State or a Territory.
(4) The access provider may determine reasonable
conditions to which access to a record is to be subject for the purpose of
ensuring the safe custody and proper preservation of the record.
(5) The
access provider is entitled to charge a fee for giving access to a record
under this Part.
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