Article 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

This Order may be cited as the Public Records (Transfer to the Public Record Office) (Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2012 and shall come into force on 1st January 2013.

In this Order—

• “the 1958 Act” means the Public Records Act 1958^f1;

• “relevant records” means records which, by virtue of the coming into force for some purposes on 1st January 2013 of section 45(1)(a) (transfer of records to Public Record Office) of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010^f2 and but for this Order, must be transferred in accordance with section 3(4) (selection and preservation of public records) of the 1958 Act not later than 20 years after their creation.