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38 Application of State Records Act 1998 to certain services

38 Application of State Records Act 1998 to certain services

(1) The State Records Act 1998 does not apply to a private children’s service and such a service is not a public office for the purposes of that Act.

(2) In this section—

private children’s service means a State regulated education and care service provided to the community by any person or body other than—

(a) a department, office, commission, board, corporation, agency, service or instrumentality exercising any function of any branch of the Government of the State, or

(b) a council or county council under the Local Government Act 1993.