Glossary

Local supplier

Glossary topic: Procurement

Local supplier means a supplier of goods or services that maintains a workforce whose usual place of residency (i.e. where they normally live, sleep and eat) is located within a 125 kilometre radius of where the good or service is to be supplied. If a capable local supplier does not exist within the 125 kilometre radius, the radius should be extended progressively to the local region, then Queensland, then Australia, until a suitable supplier is identified.

Asset sale

Glossary topic: Recordkeeping

A type of machinery-of-government change where government owned assets, including property, government owned corporations, resources and land owned by the state or local government, are sold to the private sector.

Owner(ship)

Glossary topic: Recordkeeping

The legal ownership of records.

For all Queensland public records, ownership rests with the State of Queensland or the local government.

Note: The ownership of public records does not generally affect a public authority's responsibility for the care and preservation of the records in its possession or control.

Sector retention and disposal schedule

Glossary topic: Recordkeeping

A retention and disposal schedule that authorises the disposal of records created by a group of agencies that perform the same or similar functions e.g. local governments, universities.

Sector schedules may only be used by the sector they are issued to unless permission is granted by QSA.

Government owned corporation (GOC)

Glossary topic: Recordkeeping

A registered corporation that undertakes commercial activities and is wholly or partly owned by the state or a local government (e.g. SunWater, North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation).

Public authority

Glossary topic: Recordkeeping

A government agency or organisation defined as a public authority under Schedule 2 of the Public Records Act 2002 including:

• Ministers and Assistant Ministers
• Departments
• the Governor
• the Executive Council
• organisations created by the Governor, a Minister or through legislation
• commissions of inquiry
• government owned corporations
• entities established by the State and a local government
• officers of the court
• a rail government entity under the Transport Infrastructure Act 1994
• local governments.

Note: A public authority can also be referred to as an agency.