New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE RECORDS ACT 1998 - SECT 18

18 Special arrangements for public offices exercising inter-government functions

(1) If a public office has inter-government functions, the Authority may enter into an agreement with the public office making provision for the rights and obligations of the public office with respect to the making, keeping, protection and control of and access to such of its records as relates to those functions.

(2) Any such agreement may, for the purpose of enabling the agreement to be given effect to, exclude or modify the operation of any of the provisions of Parts 2, 4 and 6 in their application to records to which the agreement applies, and this Act has effect in respect of any such records in accordance with the agreement.

(3) In this section:
"inter-government functions" means functions exercised by a public office under a law, or under an agreement or other arrangement between governments, that provides for the exercise of functions by the public office jointly or in co-operation with a public body of another State, a Territory or the Commonwealth.