Interpreting and Implementing a disposal authority

• Principles of records disposal
• General disposal authorities and functional disposal authorities
• Exercise on sentencing administrative file titles using general disposal authorities

Normal Administrative Practice

• What is normal administrative practice (NAP)
• Acceptable and unacceptable NAP practices

Establishing a record culling program

• Exercise on culling files using a functional disposal authority
• Differences between sentencing and culling
• Methods used in culling records

Transfer procedures and recall

• Complying with transfer requirements under the State Records Act 1998
• Proposing State records for transfer and completing transfer documentation
• Exercise using the Procedures for transferring custody of State archives
• Recall of State archives

Storage

• Requirements for storage of State records
• Electronic records
• Future management strategies for electronic records

Destruction

• Requirements that must be met before State records are destroyed
• Principles and methods of destruction and documentation requirements

Obtaining a disposal authority

• State records requirements for submission of a disposal authority
• Internal and external processes involved in obtaining a disposal authority