Government of Wales Act 1998

116 Status of Welsh public records.U.K.

(1)Welsh public records shall not be public records for the purposes of the M1Public Records Act 1958.

(2)But that Act shall have effect in relation to Welsh public records (as if they were public records for the purposes of that Act) until an order under section 117 imposes a duty to preserve them on the Assembly (or a member of the Assembly’s staff); and this subsection applies to Welsh public records whether or not, apart from subsection (1), they would be public records for those purposes.

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