(1) A Commission must give a House of the Parliament possession of the Commission's records that it no longer needs.
(1A) If:
(a) a Commission gives records to a House of the Parliament under subsection (1); and
(b) the parliamentary presiding officers have been given a separate report under subsection 48(6) that they no longer need;
then the parliamentary presiding officers must give the separate report to the House of the Parliament referred to in paragraph (a).
(2) A record given under subsection (1) or (1A) is taken to be a Class A record for the purposes of:
(a) the Archives Act 1983 ; and
(b) any regulations made under, or for the purposes of, that Act.