PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS BROADCASTING.

No. 35 of 1960.

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946.

[Assented to 8th June, 1960.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1960.

(2.) The Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946–1960.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. After section thirteen of the Parliamentary Proceedings Broadcasting Act 1946 the following section is inserted:—

Recording of Parliamentary proceedings.

“13a.—(1.) In this section, ‘the Commission’ means the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

“(2.) The Commission may make a sound recording of any proceedings of the Senate or of the House of Representatives and shall make a sound recording of any such proceedings when directed so to do by the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Committee.

“(3.) The Commission shall, within such period as the Committee from time to time directs, deliver to the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Committee any recording made by the Commission in pursuance of this section.

“(4.) Where the Committee considers that a recording made by the Commission in pursuance of this section is of sufficient historic interest to justify its being permanently preserved, the Committee may make such arrangements as it thinks fit for the permanent safe keeping of the recording.

“(5.) Where the Committee does not make arrangements for the permanent safe keeping of a recording, the Committee shall cause the recording to be destroyed.”.