When a revised retention and disposal authority (RDA) is approved by the State Records Commission, it supersedes (or replaces) the previous RDA and organisations must use the revised RDA to sentence and dispose of relevant records going forward.
The revised RDA may stipulate, for instance, that certain categories of records need to be retained for longer or shorter periods than the periods set out in the superseded RDA.
These instructions set out the steps to follow in order to resentence those records.
