Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ARCHIVES ACT 1983 - SECT 3B

    If a company or association was, immediately before the commencement of this section:

  (a)   a Commonwealth - controlled company or a Commonwealth - controlled association that was:

  (i)   not established for a public purpose; and

  (ii)   not prescribed under paragraph   (c) of the definition of authority of the Commonwealth as then in force; or

  (b)   a Commonwealth - controlled company or a Commonwealth - controlled association that was:

  (i)   established for a public purpose; but

  (ii)   taken, under a provision of an Act, never to have been so established;

then, despite paragraph   (c) of the definition of authority of the Commonwealth , the company or association is to be taken not to be an authority of the Commonwealth.