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(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
(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.
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