Coverage

ScheduleOne covers Commonwealth law and the law of the states and territories below. The figures come straight from the legal database, so they change whenever the law is updated.

Laws are the Acts, regulations and other legislative instruments in force. Requirements are the record-keeping duties found in them: to keep a record, for how long, from when, or to destroy it. In schedules says whether businesses there get that law in their schedule today. Where it says Coming, the law is loaded and being prepared for schedules; businesses there still get every Commonwealth requirement.

What is included

• Legislation in force: Acts, regulations and legislative instruments. Each requirement links to the official text.
• Business duties. Duties that bind businesses and other organisations. Duties that only bind government (for example, “the Registrar must keep a register”) are recorded but left out of business schedules.
• Records you hold for government. Where a business keeps records for a government agency, ScheduleOne shows them as kept as the agency directs.

What is not included

• Court decisions and bills. Only legislation in force is used.
• Government disposal authorities issued by archives bodies. They govern government agencies’ own records.
• Industry codes and standards that aren’t law, and contractual obligations. Those belong in your own business rules, which ScheduleOne records alongside the law.