Brunei National Archives Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part IV · Public Records
Section 11
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Director may authorise the destruction of any Destruction specified classes of public records which
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by reason of their number, kind or routine nature do not in his opinion possess any enduring value for preservation as public archives; and
public archives
"public archives" means - (a) public records (i) which are more than 25 years old; (ii) which are specified by the Director as being of enduring national or historical value or both; and (iii) which have been transferred to the Brunei National Archives or any such place as the Director may from time to time direct; and Interpreta-tion 3 Establish-ment of Brunei National Arc-hives Management of Archives by the Direc-tor and pow-ers of Direc-tor (b) any document, book or other material ac-quired for the Brunei National Archives by the Director;
are not required for reference purposes in any public office after action on them is completed or after expiration of such period of years from the
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Access of public to pub-lic archives
Certified
. copy of pub-lic records
Delegation of
Director's powers
Publication of public archives
Brunei National Archives date on which action on them is completed as may be agreed upon between the Director and the administrative head of that public office.
Brunei National Archives
"Brunei National Archives" means the State Archives of Brunei established under this Act;
Terms defined in s 2
Brunei National Archives
Defined · s 2"Brunei National Archives" means the State Archives of Brunei established under this Act;
public archives
Defined · s 2"public archives" means - (a) public records (i) which are more than 25 years old; (ii) which are specified by the Director as being of enduring national or historical value or both; and (iii) which have been transferred to the Brunei National Archives or any such place as the Director may from time to time direct; and Interpreta-tion 3 Establish-ment of Brunei National Arc-hives Management of Archives by the Direc-tor and pow-ers of Direc-tor (b) any document, book or other material ac-quired for the Brunei National Archives by the Director;
public records
Defined · s 2"public records" means papers, documents, re-cords, registers, printed material, books, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, microfilms, cine-matograph, films and sound recordings of any kind whatsoever, officially received or produced by any public office for the conduct of its affairs or by any officer or employee of a public office in the course of his official duties.