New South Wales Consolidated Acts

STATE RECORDS ACT 1998 - SECT 18

18 Special agreements with public offices exercising inter-government functions

(1) This section applies to public offices that exercise functions (
"inter-government functions" ) jointly or in cooperation with a public body of the Commonwealth, another State or a Territory, under a law or an agreement or other arrangement between governments.

(2) The Authority or Museums of History NSW may, as it relates to functions conferred on the Authority or Museums of History NSW, respectively, enter into an agreement with the public office that provides for the rights and obligations of the public office in relation to making, keeping, protecting, controlling or providing access to records relating to the exercise of inter-government functions.

(3) The agreement may exclude or modify the application of 1 or more provisions of Part 2, 4 or 6 to specified records.

(4) A term of the agreement prevails over a provision of this Act to the extent of an inconsistency.