Correctional Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 111 of 1998)

All warrants of detention and related documentation must be kept at the remand detention facility for a period of five years from the date of the last court appearance as a remand detainee after which period it must be forwarded to a Departmental archive if the remand detainee is not sentenced to incarceration. Such records must be transferred to an archives repository after 20 years as contemplated in section 11 of the National Archives and Record Service of South Africa Act, 1996 (Act No. 43 of 1996). If the remand detainee is sentenced to incarceration the warrant or warrants of detention must be kept with the sentenced warrant or warrants.