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 ENDNOTES