Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to certain autlzontus to make rules for the disposal of dociJments.-( 1) Tl1e authorities hereinafter specified may, from time to time, make rules for the disposal, by destruction or otherwise, of such documents as are, in the opmion of the authority making the rules, not of sufficient public value to justify their preservation. (2) The authorities competent to make rules under sub-section (I) shall be,- (a) in the case of documents in the possession or custody of the H1gh Court or of the cow ts of civil or crimmal jurisd1ct1on subordi- nate thercto,-the High Court ; • Published m the Gazette Extraordinary, dated the 9th dat of January 1962 . . ......-..: ' • • ·r 3 (h) in the case of documents in the possession or custody of Revenue courts and officers,-the Board of Revenue ; (c) in the case of documents in the possession or custody of any other public officer,-the Government or the Head of the Depart- ment concerned or any officer specially authorised m that behalf by the Government. (3) Rules made under this section by the High Court or by the Board of Revenue or by a Head of Department or by an officer spe- cially authorised m that behalf shall be subject to the previous approval of the Government.