Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

ARCHIVES ACT 1983 - SECT 2A

    The objects of this Act are:

  (a)   to provide for a National Archives of Australia, whose functions include:

  (i)   identifying the archival resources of the Commonwealth; and

  (ii)   preserving and making publicly available the archival resources of the Commonwealth; and

  (iii)   overseeing Commonwealth record - keeping, by determining standards and providing advice to Commonwealth institutions; and

  (b)   to impose record - keeping obligations in respect of Commonwealth records.