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Public Records Act 2005

Recordkeeping requirements - Standards, inspection, reporting, and audit

31: Direction to report to Chief Archivist

You could also call this:

"The Chief Archivist can ask you to write a report on your records."

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The Chief Archivist can tell you to write a report about how you keep records. You might need to report on how you keep records or the records you have. You will be told who to give the report to and what to include in it.

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Part 2Recordkeeping requirements
Standards, inspection, reporting, and audit

31Direction to report to Chief Archivist

  1. The Chief Archivist may give notice in writing directing the administrative head of a public office or of an approved repository to report to the Chief Archivist or to any other person specified by the Chief Archivist on—

  2. any specified aspect of its recordkeeping practice:
    1. the public records that it controls or (in the case of an approved repository) has possession of.