Brunei National Archives Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part III · Establishment and Management of
Section 4
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Brunei National Archives shall be managed and controlled by the Director who shall be appointed by
Brunei National Archives
"Brunei National Archives" means the State Archives of Brunei established under this Act;
His Majesty the Sult'an and Yang Di-Pertuan; and for the purpose of such management and control it shall be the duty of the Director
to describe and arrange all public archives;
to provide facilities for research and refer-ence;
subject to the terms and conditions on which they are acquired to reproduce or publish any pub-lic archives;
to examine any records in the custody of a public office and to advise such office as to the care and custody of such records;
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Brunei National Archives
to accept and preserve any records which are transferred to the Brunei National Archives;
at the request of any administrative head of a public office, to return to that office for such period as may be agreed upon between the Direc-tor and the administrative head and subject to such conditions as the Director may prescribe, the pub-lic records transferred from that office to the
Brunei National Archives;
to acquire by purchase, donation, bequest or otherwise any document, book or other mate-rial which in the opinion of the Director is or is likely to be of enduring nati'onal or historical value; and
to perform such other functions as are necessary for the purpose of the said management and control.
The provisions of paragraph (f) of subsection (1)
shall not be taken to require the Director to return any public records the condition of which does not warrant their removal out of the Brunei National Archives.
public records
"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.
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to autho-rise the Director to inspect the contents of any public re-cords that are secret or confidential, except with the consent of the administrative head of the public office having the custody thereof.
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.
Part IV