PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1973
PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1973
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
1. Short title
2. Definitions and limit of application of the Act
2A. Person or body no longer a public office
2B. Records of a body that ceases to be a public office
3. Public Record Office
4. Public Records Advisory Council
4A. Membership of Council not office of profit
5. Functions of Public Records Advisory Council
6. Employment of Keeper of Public Records and other employees
7. Responsibilities of Keeper of Public Records
8. Publications
8A. Transfer of public records to Public Record Office
9. Personal or private records may be withheld
10. Records may be withheld for 30 years
10AA. Certain records may be withheld from public inspection
10A. Access to records apart from Act
11. Inspection and copying of public records
12. Standards for management of public records
13. Duties of officer in charge of a public office
13A. Inspection of public office or other place
14. Power to appoint place outside Public Record Office for deposit of public records
15. Power to purchase or to transfer records for safe-keeping
15A. Compulsory acquisition of public records
16. Prescribed records—owner to lodge notice of possession
17. Sale or other disposal of prescribed records
18. Prescribed records to become property of State upon death of owner
19. Offence to remove etc. public record without authority
20. Destruction or transfer of records in Public Record Office
20A. Protection against actions for defamation or breach of confidence
21. Keeper of Public Records to report to Minister
22. Admissibility etc. of records and copies of records in Public Record Office
23. Regulations
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