LawgistThe Public Records Act
1Short title and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Public Records Act, 1993.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint
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1.1st March, 1995, vide notification No. S.O. 128(E), dated 1st March, 1995, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii)
This Act has been extended to the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union territory of Ladakh by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule (w.e.f. 31-10-2019).
All sections
- 1 Short title and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Power of the Central Government to coordinate, regulate and supervise operations connected with administration, management, etc., of public records
- 4 Prohibition against taking of public records out of India
- 5 Records officer
- 6 Responsibilities of records officer
- 7 Records officer to take appropriate action in the event of unauthorised removal, destruction, etc., of public records in his custody
- 8 Destruction or disposal of public records
- 9 Penalty for contraventions
- 10 Public records bearing security classification
- 11 Receipt of records from private sources
- 12 Access to public records
- 13 Archival Advisory Board
- 14 Functions of the Board
- 15 Power of the Director General to lay down norms and standards for courses in archival science
- 16 Protection of action taken in good faith
- 17 Power to make rules
- 18 Laying of rules before Parliament
