26Records may be temporarily taken out of the State

26 Records may be temporarily taken out of the State

26 Records may be temporarily taken out of the State

(1) An authorised person may temporarily take a record out of the State for the purposes of conducting the public office’s official business.

(2) The authorised person must ensure the record—

(a) is relevant or necessary to the conduct of the official business, and

(b) remains in the authorised person’s custody during the course of the official business, and

(c) is returned to the public office when the record is no longer required for the conduct of the official business.

(3) In this guideline—

authorised person means a person authorised by a public office to exercise the functions of the public office for the purposes of the official business.