Electoral Act 2004

(1) 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 stated in a return under this Part relating to an election, the person must keep the record for at least 4 years starting on election day.

(2) If a registered party 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 stated in a return under

Division 5, the party or entity must keep the record for at least 4 years starting on the day after the last day when the return must be given to the Commission.

(3) If a person, registered party 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):

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

(b) 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.