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Parliamentary Papers series
Advice for recipients of the Parliamentary Paper Series
The Parliamentary Papers series (PPS) is a hard copy, annually numbered and indexed set of the significant documents presented to the Parliament which either House has ordered to be included in the series. The Parliament, through the Joint Committee on Publications and the Presiding Officers, determines which organisations are entitled to receive sets of the PPS gratis. Recipients are generally only entitled to one set annually.
The PPS is essentially two products:
- loose documents (called pamphlet copies), which are processed as parliamentary papers as soon as possible after tabling; are dispatched in economical parcels and not necessarily in numeric order, and
- blister packs, which, as of 2001, come to recipients infrequently in large batches after each document in the batch is available and each volume's preliminary matter is ready. (No blister pack volume is dispatched until all its contents are available.) The last volume in the last batch for the year contains an index. This product may be bound by the recipient (the shrink wrap is just transit packaging, and is not intended to be shelved). As of 2001, volumes will not be thicker than 8cm to facilitate the binding process.
All PPS copies of documents have labels at the foot of the back cover as a means of identification. Copies without this label may have been received from the Australian Government's distribution systems (either the Library Deposit Scheme or its 'free issue'). No sets of the PPS are available through the Government's distribution systems.
Administration
The PPS is the administrative responsibility of the Department of the House of Representatives. Claims for damaged or missing goods should be made promptly (that is, shortly after delivery) to Table.Office.Reps@aph.gov.au. It may not be possible to replace goods, as the number of sets available is very limited.
Status of annual sets
| PPS product | Comment |
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| 2000 PPS | completed July 2002
| | 2001 pamphlet copies | few dispatched in the second quarter of 2002 - there are many missing documents at the beginning of this series
| | 2001 blister packs | processing into volumes by Department of the House of Representatives underway
| | 2002 pamphlet copies | no action
| | 2002 blister packs | no action
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Queries on the PPS may be emailed to Table.Office.Reps@aph.gov.au.
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