Disposal of Records
The State Records Act requires the University to dispose of its official records in accordance with approvedÌýDisposal Schedules, which set out the legally mandated retention periods and disposal actions for the various kinds of University records.
All records have a legal minimum retention period and this is governed by the State Records Act 1997 and by the use of General Disposal Schedules. It is crucial that we keep records for as long as the law and commonsense require, so that we can provide evidence of our decisions and activities after they have occurred - and it is equally important that we have practices in place to