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ARCHIVES ACT 1983 - SECT 22A

Cabinet notebooks

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, work out when a Cabinet notebook is in the open access period in accordance with the following table:

 

Open access period for Cabinet notebooks

Item

If the Cabinet notebook came into existence in any of the following years (ending on 31   December):

the Cabinet notebook is in the open access period on and after the following day:

1

a year (the creation year ) before 1960

1   January in the year that is 51 years after the creation year.

Example:   A Cabinet notebook that came into existence in the year 1959 is in the open access period on and after 1   January 2010.

2

1960, 1961 or 1962

1   January 2011.

3

1963, 1964 or 1965

1   January 2012.

4

1966, 1967 or 1968

1   January 2013.

5

1969, 1970 or 1971

1   January 2014.

6

1972, 1973 or 1974

1   January 2015.

7

1975, 1976 or 1977

1   January 2016.

8

1978, 1979 or 1980

1   January 2017.

9

1981, 1982 or 1983

1   January 2018.

10

1984, 1985 or 1986

1   January 2019.

11

1987, 1988 or 1989

1   January 2020.

12

1990

1   January 2021.

13

a year (the creation year ) after 1990

1   January in the year that is 31 years after the creation year.

Example:   A Cabinet notebook that came into existence in the year 1991 is in the open access period on and after 1   January 2022.

Note:   Records that are not Cabinet notebooks have different open access periods (see subsection   3(7) (general records) and section   22B (records containing Census information)).

  (2)   Subsection   3(7) does not apply in relation to Cabinet notebooks.


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