- Introduction
- Responding to requests for information
- Record keeping for charities
- Record keeping for incorporated associations
- your organisation's rules, policies or resolutions
- funding agreements and other contracts, or
- legislation
- various tax concessions, fundraising licences or permits
- running trade promotions and raffles
- managing employees and members
- health records, and
- disputes
More information
Our Community has developed a resource on email retention and archiving policy.
- clients or service users seeking to access information held about them
- documents sought as part of a court proceeding - sometimes called 'discovery'
- documents sought through a subpoena
- information sought using Freedom of Information provisions (where services are linked to government), and
- members seeking access to the documents of your organisation, such as meeting minutes or financial records
- is required by law to disclose
- can choose under law to disclose, and
- must not disclose
- the record-keeping requirements that apply to charities registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
- the record-keeping provisions that apply to certain companies under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
- who can inspect these records, and
- general information about good record-keeping practices
