ISSN 1321-6260
December 2024 - No 168

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Recordkeeping

Standards and Code of Best Practice 

The State Records NSW Board recently approved a revised Standard on the physical storage of State records, a revised Standard on records management, and the renewal of AS/ISO 15489.1:2017 as the Code of Best Practice.

The General retention and disposal authority: administrative records (GA28) identifies common and general administrative records created and maintained by NSW public offices which are required as State archives, and provides approval for the destruction of other records after minimum retention periods have been met.

It applies to records created and maintained by NSW public offices since 1940.

The purpose of GA39 is to identify records created and maintained by NSW councils and county councils which are required as State archives, and to provide approval for the destruction of certain other records after minimum retention periods have been met. It applies to all records of council business and administration.