Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person who is registered under the scheme in relation to a foreign principal must keep records of the matters mentioned in subsection (2):
(a) while registered under the scheme in relation to the foreign principal; and
(b) until the end of 3 years after the registration ends.
Note: Certain conduct in relation to records is an offence (see subsection 58(3) and section 61).
(1A) Despite subsection (1), a person is not required to keep any particular record for more than 10 years from the day the record was made.
(2) The matters are the following:
(a) registrable activities the person undertakes on behalf of the foreign principal;
(b) benefits provided to the person by the foreign principal;
(c) information or material forming part of any communications activity that is registrable in relation to the foreign principal;
(d) any registrable arrangement between the person and the foreign principal;
(e) other information or material communicated or distributed to the public or a section of the public in Australia on behalf of the foreign principal.