Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Archives Act 1983 No. 79 of 1983 - SECT 25

25. (1) The Archives shall-

   (a)  as soon as practicable after the commencement of this Part, furnish to
        the Council a statement in writing setting out particulars of the
        practices followed by, or approved by, the Archives in respect of the
        destruction or other disposal of Commonwealth records whether or not
        those practices have been agreed upon between the Archives and any
        particular Commonwealth institution;

   (b)  in a case where, after the commencement of this Part, the Archives
        alters, or approves any alteration of, any practice of a kind referred
        to in paragraph (a), not being a practice agreed upon between the
        Archives and a Commonwealth institution-furnish to the Council a
        statement setting out particulars of the alteration to that practice
        as soon as practicable after the Archives has decided to alter, or to
        approve the alteration of, that practice and, where possible, before
        the implementation of the practice as so altered; and

   (c)  in a case where practices for the destruction or other disposal of
        Commonwealth records are agreed upon at any time after the
        commencement of this Part between the Archives and a
        Commonwealth institution-furnish to the Council a statement setting
        out particulars of those practices as soon as practicable after those
        practices have been agreed upon and, where possible, before the
        implementation of those practices.

(2) A reference in sub-section (1) to practices agreed upon between the
Archives and a Commonwealth institution includes a reference to practices so
agreed upon that vary practices that have, whether before or after the
commencement of this Part, been previously agreed upon between the Archives
and that institution.