Western Australian Current Acts

STATE RECORDS ACT 2000 - SECT 11

11 .         Content of plans

        (1)         A record keeping plan in respect of a parliamentary department is a record setting out —

            (a)         the matters about which parliamentary records are to be created by the department; and

            (b)         how the department is to keep its parliamentary records.

        (2)         A parliamentary department’s record keeping plan must be consistent with any written law to which the department is subject when performing its functions.

        (3)         Without limiting subsection (1), a parliamentary department’s record keeping plan must set out —

            (a)         those parliamentary records that will be retained permanently; and

            (b)         the retention period for those parliamentary records that are not to be retained permanently; and

            (c)         the systems to ensure the security of the parliamentary records and compliance with the record keeping plan.

        (4)         A parliamentary department’s record keeping plan may set out the manner in which records will be created.

        (5)         A parliamentary department’s record keeping plan may provide —

            (a)         for a parliamentary record to be reproduced in another form;

            (b)         for the destruction of a parliamentary record if a reproduction of it is being kept, even though the destruction occurs at a time when the record would otherwise not be able to be lawfully destroyed.

        (6)         A parliamentary department’s record keeping plan may set out —

            (a)         whether or not public access is to be permitted to a parliamentary record or class of parliamentary record;

            (b)         if public access is to be permitted, the age of the record at which it will be permitted.