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COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 - SECT 182A

Copyright in statutory instruments and judgments etc.

  (1)   The copyright, including any prerogative right or privilege of the Crown in the nature of copyright, in a prescribed work is not infringed by the making, by reprographic reproduction, of one copy of the whole or of a part of that work by or on behalf of a person and for a particular purpose.

  (2)   Subsection   (1) does not apply to the making, by reprographic reproduction, of a copy of the whole or a part of the work, where a charge is made for making and supplying that copy, unless the amount of the charge does not exceed the cost of making and supplying that copy.

  (3)   In subsection   (1), a prescribed work means:

  (a)   an Act or State Act, an enactment of the legislature of a Territory or an instrument (including an Ordinance or a rule, regulation or by - law) made under an Act, a State Act or such an enactment;

  (b)   a judgment, order or award of a Federal court or of a court of a State or Territory;

  (c)   a judgment, order or award of a Tribunal (not being a court) established by or under an Act or other enactment of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;

  (d)   reasons for a decision of a court referred to in paragraph   (b), or of a Tribunal referred to in paragraph   (c), given by the court or by the Tribunal; or

  (e)   reasons given by a Justice, Judge or other member of a court referred to in paragraph   (b), or of a member of a Tribunal referred to in paragraph   (c), for a decision given by him or her either as the sole member, or as one of the members, of the court or Tribunal.


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