New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (GENERAL) REGULATION 2001 - REG 14

14 Transfer of records to successor employers

(1) This clause applies to the transfer of records kept by an employer (the "former employer") relating to a transferred employee (as defined in section 101 of the Act) to the successor of the employer (the "new employer").

(2) The former employer must transfer to the new employer all prescribed records relating to the transferred employee that, at the date of transfer, the former employer is required to keep under section 129 of the Act.

(3) The new employer is to keep those transferred records as if they had been made by the new employer at the time they were made by the former employer.

(4) The former employer is required to keep a copy of the transferred records for a period of at least 6 years after those records were made.

(5) The new employer is not required to make records of anything occurring in the course of the transferred employee’s employment with the former employer.