Destruction of Records: Registrar's prior order required before expiry of prescribed retention periods for company records. Subject to the previous order of the Registrar of Companies, specified records in his office may be destroyed after the expiration of the period of their preservation as specified below; categories include long term registers such as the Register of Security Bonds and Succession List of Officers, liquidation papers and related registers and correspondence, and shorter term items like copies of Government orders, unpaid dividend account papers, registered documents of dissolved companies, disposed legal proceedings papers, statistical returns, and scrutiny and complaint correspondence.