Territory Records Act 2002

An agency must ensure the safekeeping and proper preservation of its records.

An agency must ensure that its records that are in someone else’s possession are held under arrangements that provide for the safekeeping, proper preservation and return of the records.

If an agency does not have control of a record that it is entitled to control and the record is not held under arrangements mentioned in subsection (2), the agency must take reasonable steps to recover control of the record.

Subsection (3) does not apply if the record is under the control of someone else who has a right to control it.