Functional retention and disposal authorities

Overview

The purpose of a retention and disposal authority is to identify those records created and maintained by NSW public offices which are required as State archives and to provide approval for the destruction of certain other records created and maintained by NSW public offices, after minimum retention periods have been met.

Functional retention and disposal authorities are issued for use by particular organisations or organisations carrying out similar or the same functions, e.g. growth centre or precinct development, superannuation funds management, social housing providers. For details of authorities applying to all public offices please refer to the General retention and disposal authorities page.

Note: The approval for disposal given by authorities issued by State Records is given under the provisions of the State Records Act only and does not override any other obligations of an organisation to retain records. A public office must not dispose of any records where the public office is aware of possible legal action (including legal discovery, court cases, formal applications for access) where the records may be required as evidence. See the Disposing of records page for further advice about disposal and disposal alerts or freezes.

The following pages contain functional retention and disposal authorities that have been approved for use by State Records. The authorities are arranged alphabetically by organisation. Each entry indicates who the authority was issued to, the date range of the records covered by the authority, whether the authority applies to the whole or part of the organisation and the authority number.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W