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A disposal notification is posted once a recommendation for disposal actions has been made to a regulated agency by the Chief Archivist. You can view the appraisal report and disposal schedule attached to these recommendations, and make comments.

Only comments about the disposal recommendation will be assessed as part of this process. Examples of the type of information that impacts these recommendations are:

  • is there new information that you can provide affecting the disposal recommendations?

  • can you provide a new interpretation of existing information relating to the recommendations?

  • can you produce evidence that the appraisal did not give enough weight to existing information relating to the recommendations?

Additional information about the disposal authority can be provided by quoting the Appraisal ID number. To request more information please contact us.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Appraisal number

APP2023/0016

Appraisal type

Schedule transfer or destruction

General description

This disposal authority applies to information and records pertaining to the functions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The schedule consists of ten classes of records:

  • Agreement, Convention and Treaty Negotiation and Management

  • Policy Development and Advice to Government

  • New Zealand Aid Strategy, Governance, Review and Delivery

  • Consular Management

  • Global Network Preparedness and Response

  • Trade and Economic Analysis and Policy Implementation

  • Management and Monitoring of Relations

  • Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Corporate Services

  • Ministry Strategic Management and Governance

This disposal authority will supersede the current disposal authority DA537 which is due to expire in 2026.

Public notice date

Thu, 16/01/2025 (All day)

Comment due date

Sun, 16/02/2025 (All day)

New Zealand Post Limited

Appraisal number

EST2024/0015

Appraisal type

Estray

General description

This ad-hoc/one-off legacy appraisal report covers estray historical records from the Christchurch New Zealand Post Limited. The records covered are unregistered and created by the Post Office and its predecessors, up to its disestablishment in 1987, with the exception of information and records covered by Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand’s General Disposal Authorities, GDA 6 & 7 (GDAs).

The classes identified are:

  • photographs of staff, buildings and plant

  • plans of sites and buildings

  • departmental publications

  • collected historical records.

Public notice date

Thu, 16/01/2025 (All day)

Comment due date

Sun, 16/02/2025 (All day)

There is no Disposal Schedule for this disposal