Public Records Act 2005

Recordkeeping requirements - Estray records, prescribed records, protected records, Ministers’ papers, and private records - Protected records of local authorities

41: Transitional provision

You could also call this:

"Rules for old protected archives when laws change"

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You need to know that some rules are changing. When a law called the Local Government Act 1974 is updated, some protected local archives will still be protected. These archives were protected by a notice in the Gazette under section 256 of the Local Government Act 1974, and now they will be treated like protected records under the Public Records Act 2005, because of section 40.

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40: Protected records of local authorities, or

"Rules to Keep Important Local Authority Records Safe"

42: Chief Archivist may accept parliamentary records, Ministers’ papers, and private and other records, or

"The Chief Archivist can look after important New Zealand records and papers."

Part 2Recordkeeping requirements
Estray records, prescribed records, protected records, Ministers’ papers, and private records: Protected records of local authorities

41Transitional provision

Despite section 66(b) (which repeals Part 17 of the Local Government Act 1974), section 40 applies to any classes of local archives protected by notice in the Gazette given under section 256 of the Local Government Act 1974 as if those classes of local archives were protected records under this Act.