NATIONAL
ARCHIVES DECREE 1992
Decree
No. 30
ARRANGEMENT
OF SECTIONS
SECTION
PART I - ESTABLISHMENT
OFTHE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, ETC.
1. Establishment
and general functions of the National Archives of Nigeria
2. Appointment and functions
of the Director, etc.
PART II - PRESERVATION
AND MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC RECORDS
3. Responsibilities
for records management.
4. Prohibitions.
5. Designation of Department
Records Management officer.
6. Power of Director to examine
public records.
7. Operation of records centre.
8. Assessment of practices
in public offices.
9. Reports on condition of
public records
10. Training of departmental
records management staff, etc.
11. Authority of the Secretary
to the Government oft he Federation, etc. not impugned.
12. Criteria for the selection
or public records for permanent preservation.
13. Responsibility for records
transfer.
14. Power of Director to
requisition public records in peril.
15. Transfer of records
of defunct offices
16. Preservation of constitutional
and legal document
17. Statutory delivery of
official publications.
18. Deferment of records
transfer.
19. Return of records to
public offices.
20. Declaration of places
of deposit
21. Power of Director over
places of deposit
22. Return of public archives
removed illegally
23. Repatriation of migrated
archives.
24. Acquisition of the records
of the President.
25. Disposal of non-archival
public records in the National Archives.
26. Power to dispose of
private archives restricted.
27. Access of the public
to the National Archives.
28. Powers of the Director
on access to archives
29. Reproduction and publication
of archives.
30. Legal validity of public
records.
31. Authentication of copies
and seal as evidence of such copies.
32. Reconstruction of public
archives
33. Establishment, etc.
of State Archives by the State Government.
PART III - PRESERVATION
AND MANAGEMENT OF RECORDS OF
PRIVATE BODIES, INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES.
34. Power
to inspect private records
35. Register of non-current
records, etc.
36. Responsibilities of
the owners of private archives.
37. Restrictions on disposal,
transfer or sale of private archives.
38. Exportation of private
archives prohibited.
39. Responsibilities of
Director over private archives.
40. Voluntary deposit of
private archives in the National Archives
41. Compulsory transfer
of private archives to National Archives, etc.
42. Records of banned parties
to be transferred to National Archives,
43. Acquisition of records
by gift or purchase
44. Collection of oral traditions
and oral history and register for oral traditions and
oral history.
45. Establishment of archives
by business houses or companies.
46. Compulsory transfer
of business records
PART IV –
MISCELLANEOUS
47. Appointment
of the National Archives Advisory Council.
48. Functions of the Council,
etc
49. Regulations.
50. Restriction on the exportation
of oral traditions, etc.
51. Removal and destruction
of archives prohibited.
52. Interpretation.
53. Citation and repeal.
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