Examples of extracts from draft retention and disposal authorities with justifications have been provided below. Some of these include details of benchmarking with other jurisdictions, links to the State archives appraisal policy Building the Archives, and precedents, to illustrate the information that is provided to the Board of the State Archives and Records Authority to assist with their decision to approve or reject a disposal authority.
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- Disposal Authorisation Procedures
- Introduction
- Before you begin
- Preparing a retention and disposal authority
- Methodology for appraising records retention and disposal requirements
- Stakeholder consultation
- Submitting a retention and disposal authority
- Implementing a retention and disposal authority
- Reviewing an approved retention and disposal authority
- Policy on disposal authorisation and administrative change
- Appendix 1: Overview of documentation requirements and templates
- Appendix 2: Example supporting documentation
- Appendix 3: Drafting the authority
- Appendix 4: Examples of a draft retention and disposal authority
- Appendix 5: Checklist for submitting a draft retention and disposal authority
- Appendix 6: Interviewing business managers and action officers