15Classified document register

#### 15 Classified document register (1) An authorised recipient in relation to a security classified document must maintain, or have access to, a classified document register. (2) As soon as practicable after an authorised recipient receives, creates or prepares a security classified document in hard copy form, or transfers such a document to another person, the recipient must record the following information in the classified document register: (a) if the document has a unique reference number—that number; (b) the title or subject of the document; (c) the security classification of the document; (d) the authorised recipient’s full name; (e) the date the authorised recipient received, created, prepared or transferred the document; (f) if the document was transferred—the name of the person to whom the document was transferred; (g) details of any carriage of the document, including the date of the carriage. (3) However, an authorised recipient must not record any national security information in the register. (4) For the purposes of this section, an authorised recipient who removes a security classified document from a security container as referred to in section 10 is not taken to have received the document.