Victorian Consolidated Legislation

PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1973

Act No. 8418/1973
Version incorporating amendments as at 7 June 2006

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page
   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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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
           3. Explanatory Details