LAGOS STATE RECORDS AND ARCHIVES LAW

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LIST OF LAWS OF LAGOS, [ALPHABETICAL]  

RECORDS AND ARCHIVES LAW

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

1.       Establishment of the Records and Archives Bureau

2.       Functions of the Bureau

3.       Establishment of the Records and Archives Advisory Board

4.       Proceedings and meetings

5.       Membership of the Advisory Board

6.       Tenure of office

7.       Functions of the Advisory Board

8.       Director-General of the Bureau

9.       Functions of the Director General

10.     Duties of the Director

11.     Public records

12.     Responsibility of heads of public office of records

13.     Responsibility for local records

14.     Places of deposit

15.     Commissioner on the advice of the Director-General and the Advisory Board

16.     Regulations

17.     Transitional provisions for records and archives

18.     Deferment of transfer

19.     Inheritance of public records

20.     Interpretation

21.     Citation and Commencement

SCHEDULE

RECORDS AND ARCHIVES LAW

A LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LAGOS STATE RECORDS AND ARCHIVES BUREAU AND FOR CONNECTED PURPOSES

[Commencement]                                                           [18th May, 2007]             

1.      Establishment of the Records and Archives Bureau

(1)     There is established the Lagos State Records and Archives Bureau (referred to in this Law as “the Bureau”).

(2)     The Bureau will be responsible to the Commissioner, who will be advised by the Records and Archives Board (referred to in this Law as “the Advisory Board”).

(3)     The Bureau is a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal.

(4)     The Bureau can sue and be sued in its corporate name.

(5)     The Bureau may have such number of branches or repositories as may be necessary.

LAWS OF LAGOS STATE

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