Electoral Act 1992

If a person makes or obtains an article that is or includes a record relating to a matter particulars of which are, or could be, required to be set out in a return under this part relating to an election, the person shall keep the record for not less than 4 years beginning on polling day for that election.

If a party, MLA or associated entity makes or obtains an article that is or includes a record relating to a matter particulars of which are, or could be, required to be set out in a return under division 14.6 (Annual returns), the party, MLA or associated entity must keep the record for not less than 4 years beginning on the day after the last day when the return must be given to the commissioner.

If a person, party, MLA or associated entity (the transferor) would, in the normal course of business or administration, transfer to someone else a record mentioned in subsection (1) or (2)—

the transferor is taken not to have contravened the subsection by transferring the record; and

the person to whom the record is transferred must keep the record for the period for which the transferor would have been required to keep the record if the record had not been transferred.