8Meaning of principal officer

8 Meaning of principal officer In this Act: principal officer, of an agency, means— (a) for the Executive—the head of service; or (b) for an administrative unit—the director-general of the administrative unit; or (c) for the Supreme Court, Magistrates Court, Coroner’s Court or ACAT—the chief executive officer appointed under the Court Procedures Act 2004, section 11A (1); or (d) for the Office of the Legislative Assembly—the clerk of the Legislative Assembly; or (e) for an officer of the Assembly—the officer; or (f) for a statutory office-holder and the staff assisting the statutory office-holder—the statutory office-holder; or (g) for a territory-owned corporation or a subsidiary of a territory-owned corporation—the chief executive officer of the corporation or subsidiary; or (h) for a royal commission, board of inquiry, judicial commission or the judicial council (the body)—the director-general of the administrative unit that provides secretariat support to the body; or (i) for any other agency—the person prescribed by regulation to be the principal officer of the agency.

Management and care of records Part 2 General Division 2.1 Section 9 R25 09/03/26 Territory Records Act 2002 Effective: 09/03/26 page 7 Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at www.legislation.act.gov.au 9 Meaning of record of an agency etc (1) For this Act, a record of the Executive— (a) is a record under the Executive’s control or that it is entitled to control, kept as a record of its activities; and (b) includes a record created or received by a Minister as a member of the Executive; but (c) does not include a record— (i) relating to the Minister’s personal or political activities; or (ii) created or received by the Minister only in the Minister’s capacity as a member of the Legislative Assembly. (2) For this Act, a record of an agency other than the Executive is a territory record under the agency’s control or to which it is entitled to control. (3) For this Act, a territory record is a record made and kept, or received and kept, by a person in the course of exercising a function under a territory law.