Board resolution, adoption of the record retention policy and authority to destroy
Adopt this as firm policy by Board resolution for each client, and nothing gets destroyed on the strength of somebody's judgement about what looks old.
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- 1Board resolution, adoption of the record retention policy and authority to destroys.179(3); SS-1
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Extract from the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors
ADOPTION OF THE RECORD RETENTION AND DESTRUCTION POLICY, AND AUTHORITY TO DESTROY RECORDS WHOSE RETENTION PERIOD HAS EXPIRED
The Chairman placed before the Board a draft Record Retention and Destruction Policy setting out, for each category of the Company's records, the statutory or policy retention period and the manner of destruction. He also placed a schedule of records whose prescribed retention period has expired, being [describe the records and the period they cover].