(1)  The Recorder may cause to be made a transparency of any dealing, map, plan, or document that is in the Recorder’s possession or custody or under the Recorder’s control and may, subject to the Archives Act 1983 , keep that transparency in lieu of, or in addition to, the dealing, map, plan, or document of which it is a transparency.

(2)  Where the Recorder, pursuant to subsection (1) , keeps a transparency in lieu of a dealing, map, plan, or document, the Recorder may –

(a) deliver the dealing, map, plan, or document to any person who satisfies the Recorder that the person intends to preserve it for historical purposes; or

(b) destroy the dealing, map, plan, or document.

(3)  In this section,

transparency , in relation to any dealing, map, plan or document, means –

(a) a developed negative or positive photograph of that dealing, map, plan or document (in this definition referred to as an original photograph) made on a transparent base by means of light reflected from, or transmitted through, the dealing, map, plan or document; or

(b) a copy of an original photograph made by the use of photosensitive material on a transparent base placed in surface contact with the original photograph; or

(c) any one of a series of copies of an original photograph, the first of the series being made by the use of photosensitive material on a transparent base placed in surface contact with a copy referred to in paragraph (b) , and each succeeding copy in the series being made in the same manner from any preceding copy in the series.