This page contains guidance that will assist Ministers' offices to create and keep records appropriately and comply with their obligations under the Act. Offices of New South Wales Government Ministers are 'public offices' as defined in section 3 (1) of the State Records Act 1998.
The purpose of issuing the General Retention and Disposal Authority - records of a minister's office (GDA 13) is to permit ministerial and/or departmental staff to destroy certain records relating to a minister's portfolio responsibilities, after they are no longer required for administrative purposes, and to identify which records are required as State archives. The disposal actions in this Authority should enable ministerial and/or departmental staff to better manage records created in a minister's office.