The Freedom of Information (Definition of Historical Records) (Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2012

Transitional provision

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2.—(1) Notwithstanding the coming into force on 1st January 2013 of paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, for the period of 10 years beginning on that day the time when a relevant record becomes a historical record for the purposes of Part 6 of the 2000 Act is that provided for by paragraph (2).

(2) A relevant record created in a year specified in column 1 of the table in the Schedule to this Order shall become a historical record from the end of the year specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.