Copyright Act 1994

Acts permitted in relation to copyright works - Public administration

58: Copying by Parliamentary Service for members of Parliament

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You can get a copy of a literary or dramatic work from the Parliamentary Service. This includes any artistic work in that literary or dramatic work. The Parliamentary Service can give you this copy without breaking copyright rules. You can also get a recording of a communication work or a transcript of that recording. The Parliamentary Service can give you this recording or transcript without breaking copyright rules. There are conditions that must be met for the Parliamentary Service to give you these copies. The Parliamentary Service must be providing library services under section 123(1)(e) of the Parliament Act 2025. You can only get one copy of the same material at a time. You must need the copy to do your job as a member of Parliament.

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Part 3Acts permitted in relation to copyright works
Public administration

58Copying by Parliamentary Service for members of Parliament

  1. An employee of the Parliamentary Service may, if the conditions contained in subsection (3) are complied with, supply to any member of Parliament a copy of a literary or dramatic work, and any artistic work included in that work, without infringing copyright in that literary, dramatic, or artistic work or the typographical arrangement of a published edition.

  2. An employee of the Parliamentary Service may, if the conditions contained in subsection (3) are complied with, supply to any member of Parliament a recording of a communication work or a transcript of a recording of the communication work, without infringing copyright in the communication work or any work included in that communication work.

  3. The conditions referred to in subsections (1) and (2) are—

  4. that the employee of the Parliamentary Service is engaged in supplying the library, information, research, and reference services provided by the Parliamentary Service under section 123(1)(e) of the Parliament Act 2025; and
    1. that no member of Parliament is supplied on the same occasion with more than 1 copy or recording or transcript, as the case may be, of the same material; and
      1. that the copy or recording or transcript is required by that member of Parliament for the purposes of performing his or her duties as such a member.
        Notes
        • Section 58 heading: replaced, on , by section 51 of the Parliament (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 63).
        • Section 58(1): amended, on , by section 51 of the Parliament (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 63).
        • Section 58(2): amended, on , by section 51 of the Parliament (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 63).
        • Section 58(2): amended, on , by section 38 of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 27).
        • Section 58(3)(aaa): inserted, on , by section 51 of the Parliament (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 63).