# Provide contestability, supply-chain transparency and records (guardrails 7 to 9)

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Voluntary AI Safety Standard (Australia)
- **Jurisdiction**: Australia
- **Category**: vendor_governance
- **Binding**: No
- **Provision**: Guardrails 7, 8 and 9

## In brief

Provide contestability, supply-chain transparency and records (guardrails 7 to 9) is a voluntary measure under the Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard in Australia (Guardrails 7, 8 and 9). The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 1 framework. In practice: Add AI clauses to supplier contracts and keep an AI system register with evidence links.

## What the duty requires

Establish processes for people impacted by AI to challenge use or outcomes; be transparent with other organisations across the AI supply chain about data, models and systems; and keep and maintain records to allow third parties to assess compliance.

## What an organisation does about it

Add AI clauses to supplier contracts and keep an AI system register with evidence links.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Contractual allocation of AI duties across the supply chain (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/contractual-allocation-of-ai-duties
- Decision explanation, human review and appeal route (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/decision-explanation-and-appeal-route
- AI system inventory and classification (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-system-inventory

## Parent instrument

- Voluntary AI Safety Standard (Australia)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/australia-voluntary-ai-safety-standard
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/australia-voluntary-ai-safety-standard.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0003 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0003; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/australia-vaiss-contestability-supply-chain-records
- **Official source**: https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard
- **Provision**: Guardrails 7, 8 and 9
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Provide contestability, supply-chain transparency and records (guardrails 7 to 9) (Australian Voluntary AI Safety Standard)" [AIPT-OBL-0003, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0003 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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