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STATE RECORDS ACT 2000 - SECT 55

55 .         Reciprocal agreements to recover government records

        (1)         In this section —

        reciprocal person means a person that, under a law of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory that corresponds with this Act, has functions that correspond with the Director’s.

        (2)         The Director may enter into an agreement with a reciprocal person under which —

            (a)         the Director may take action in this State to recover a record that under the law of the other place corresponds to a government record and to give the record to the reciprocal person; and

            (b)         the reciprocal person may take action in the other place to recover a government record and to give the record to the Director.

        (3)         Sections 52 and 53, with any necessary changes, apply for the purpose of the Director taking action to recover a record for a reciprocal person.



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