The ASSAM PUBLIC RECORDS ACT, 2002
assam · 2002
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- S. 2Section 2 defines key terms used in the Assam Public Records Act, 2002, including "Board," "Director," "Prescribed," "Public Records," and "Records creating agency."
- S. 3( I) The State Clovcrnment shal I have the power to co-ordinate, regulate and superv1se the operation
- S. 4No
- S. 5Section mandates records creating agencies to appoint a records officer and establish record rooms.
- S. 6Section 6 mandates the records officer to manage, preserve, review, and destroy public records, and assist the State Archives of Assam.
- S. 7Section 7 mandates records officers to take action against unauthorized tampering of public records and report to the Director of Archives.
- S. 10No public records bearing security classification shall be transferred to the State Archives of Assam
- S. 12Section 12 allows bona-fide research scholars access to unclassified public records over thirty years old in Assam's State Archives, with certain exceptions.
- S. 13Section 13 establishes an Archival Advisory Board to oversee public records management in Assam.
- S. 14Section 14 outlines the Board's duties to advise the government on public records management, train archivists, and acquire private records.
- S. 15Section 15 empowers the Director of Archives to set training standards and oversee archival preservation, with immunity for good faith actions.
- S. 17(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the provisions of this
- S. 18rules before State Legis- lative
- S. 2002(2) It extends to the whole of Assam