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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 7

Title: Records Officer to Take Appropriate Action in the Event of Unauthorised Removal, Destruction, Etc., of Public Records in His Custody

State: Central

Year: 1993

(1) The records officer shall, in the event of any unauthorised removal, destruction, defacement or alteration of any public records under his charge, forthwith take appropriate action for the recovery or restoration of such public records. (2) The records officer shall submit a report in writing to the Director General or, as the ease may be, the head of the Archives without any delay on any information about any unauthorised removal, destruction, defacement or alteration of any public records under his charge and about the action initiated by him and shall take action as he may deem necessary subject to the directions, if any, given by the Director General or, as the case may be, head of the Archives. (3) The records officer may seek assistance from any government officer or any other person forthe purpose of recovery or restoration of public records and such officer or person shall render all assistance to the records officer.

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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 12

Title: Access to Public Records

State: Central

Year: 1993

(1) All unclassified public records as are more than thirty yearsold arid are transferred to the National Archives of India or the Archives of the Union territory may be, subject to such exceptions and restrictions as may be prescribed, made available to any bona fide research scholar. Explanation.For the purposes of this sub-section, the period of thirty years shall be reckoned from the year of the opening of the public record. (2) Any records creating agency may grant to any person access to any public record in its custody in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.

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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 4

Title: Prohibition Against Taking of Public Records out of India

State: Central

Year: 1993

No person shall take or cause to be taken out of India any public records without the prior approval of the Central Government: Provided that no such prior approval shall be required if any public records are taken or sent out of India for any official purpose.

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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 8

Title: Destruction or Disposal of Public Records

State: Central

Year: 1993

(1) Save as otherwise provided in any law for the time being in force, no public record shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of except in such mariner and subject to such condition's as may be prescribed. (2) No record created before the year 1982 shall be destroyed except where in the opinion of the Director General or, as the case may be, the head of the Archives, it is so defaced or is in such condition that it cannot be put to any archival use.

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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 11

Title: Receipt of Records from Private Sources

State: Central

Year: 1993

(1) The National Archives of India or the Archives of the Union territory may accept any record of historical or national importance from any private source by way of gift, purchase or otherwise. (2) The National Archieves of India or, as the case may be, the Archives of any Union territory may, in such manner and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, make any record referred to in sub-section (1) available to any bona fide research scholar.

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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 10

Title: Public Records Bearing Security Classification

State: Central

Year: 1993

No public records bearing security classification shall be transferred to the National Archives of India or the Archives of the Union territory.

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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 14

Title: Functions of the Board

State: Central

Year: 1993

The Board shall perform the following functions, namely : (a) advise the Central Government and Union territory Administrations on matters concerning the administration, management, conservation and use of public records; (b) lay down guidelines for training of Archivists; (c) give directions for acquisition of records from private custody; (d) deal with such other matters as may be prescribed.

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Bombay Land Tenures Abolition (Recovery of Records) Act, 1953, (Maharashtra) Section 4

Title: Power to Make Searches

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1953

If the Collector or the officer appointed under section 3 has reason to believe that any holder is not likely to deliver the land records as required by section 3 or is likely to destroy them or tamper with them, he may, for the purpose of recovering such records, issue a search warrant and exercise all such powers with respect thereto as may be lawfully exercised by Magistrate under the provisions of Chapter VII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898.

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Bombay Land Tenures Abolition (Recovery of Records) Act, 1953, (Maharashtra) Section 5

Title: Offence and Penalty

State: Maharashtra

Year: 1953

If a holder fails to deliver land records in accordance with the provisions of section 3, he shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees. In the case of a continuing failure to deliver land records, the holder shall be punished with an additional fine which may extend to twenty-five rupees for every day during which such failure continues after conviction for the first such failure.

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Public Records Act, 1993 Section 3

Title: Power of the Central Government to Co-ordinate, Regulate and Supervise Operations Connected with Administration, Management, Etc., of Public Records

State: Central

Year: 1993

.....of records and application of standards, procedures and techniques of records management; (j) survey and inspection on public records; (k) organising training programmes in various disciplines of Archives administration and records management; (l) accepting records from any private source; (m) regulating access to public records; (n) receiving records from defunct bodies and making arrangement for securing public records in the event of national emergency; (o) receiving reports on records management and disposal practices from the records Officer; (p) providing authenticated copies of, or extracts from, public records; (q) destroying or disposal of public records; (r) obtaining on lease or purchasing or accepting as gift any document of historical or national importance.

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