Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

ARCHIVES REGULATIONS - REG 6

         (1)   Where, the Archives has, by notice in writing, requested the consent of a Commonwealth institution to the destruction or other disposal of prescribed records, that institution shall, within 30 days after receipt of such notice, respond in writing to the Archives by:

                (a)    consenting to the proposed destruction or other disposal of the records; or

               (b)    requesting, for the reasons set out, that the Archives retain the records for a further period.

         (2)   In subregulation (1), prescribed records means Commonwealth records, or records included in a class of Commonwealth records that, in accordance with an arrangement approved by the Archives, are being kept temporarily in the custody of the Archives for a period that, at the date of the request referred to in subregulation (1), has expired or will expire within 90 days of that request.