This Business Requirements Specification (BRS) describes a portion of the process of transferring of custody of digital records from one system to another in either the public or private sector. ‘Transfer of custody' means the formal transfer of responsibility for the digital records, including responsibility for on-going preservation and access. Transfer can be of physical custody, legal custody, or both physical and legal.

Examples of transfer of custody are:

• From the organization that created the records to an archive
• From a creating organization to its successor
• From an archive back to the creating organization
• From a creating organization to secondary storage and back again
• From one archive to another
• From one system to another within one organization

The standard is expected to be of use to:

• Those responsible for records within an organization
• Those carrying out transfers of digital records
• Those designing or implementing records systems that must conform with this standard
• Those testing records systems for conformance to this standard.