Provide disposal coverage for common activities carried out by all agencies, such as personnel and finance, or for organisations within a particular sector such as local councils, public health services or universities.

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.

This general retention and disposal authority provides for the authorised destruction of original or source records that have been copied, provided that certain conditions are met. It replaces the General retention and disposal authority: imaged records (GA36).

This authority provides for the authorised disposal of State records which have been used as the input or source records for successful migration operations. It replaces the General retention and disposal authority: source records that have been migrated (GA33).

National bodies are bodies established under national schemes where Constitutional powers rest with States and Territories, and not the Commonwealth, and where the bodies concerned are not otherwise Commonwealth bodies. National bodies may be subject to the records and archives laws of multiple State and Territory jurisdictions.