What if a specific law on a specific subject cannot be located?
In many countries there are only very general rules on record retention. For instance a Commercial Code may state that “books and records must be retained for 10 years” and that is it without any definition or qualification. This is interpreted to cover any manner of accounting records in the organization. Another example comes from acts on the protection of the environment. There may not be any mention of emission monitoring records, but only a section on limit of action for violations of the environmental act. These general requirements would be “stretched” to cover areas where legislatures or regulators are silent.
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