If you lose or destroy documents, there are rules to follow. You need to know what to do when this happens. A law called the Local Government Act 1974 has a part about this, but the part about losing documents has been repealed, which means it is no longer a law. It was repealed on 21 April 2005 by section 66(b) of the Public Records Act 2005. This means you do not have to follow the old rules about losing documents anymore.