Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) If a document mentioned in subsection (2) is open to public inspection, doing any of the following in relation to the whole or part of the document does not constitute an infringement of any copyright subsisting under the Copyright Act 1968 in any literary or artistic work:
(a) reproducing the document in two - dimensional form;
(b) communicating (within the meaning of that Act) the document to the public;
(c) translating (within the meaning of that Act) the document.
(a) a provisional specification; and
(b) a complete specification; and
(3) If a reproduction of an unpublished work is made as a result
of a document being open to public inspection, the supply or communication of
the reproduction does not constitute the publication of the work for the
purposes of the Copyright Act 1968 .