New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE RECORDS ACT 1998 - SECT 6

6 Meaning of “control” of a record

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is taken to have control of a record if the person has possession or custody of the record or has the record in the possession or custody of some other person.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, an entitlement to control of a record is an entitlement to possession and custody of the record (including by having it in the possession or custody of some other person).

Note: For example, a public office is taken to have control of records that are held by the public office in storage with a commercial storage provider.