Section 4
of Brunei National Archives Act
Section 4
(1)
The Brunei National Archives shall be managed and controlled by the Director who shall be appointed by
His Majesty the Sult'an and Yang Di-Pertuan; and for the purpose of such management and control it shall be the duty of the Director
(a)
to describe and arrange all public archives;
(b)
to provide facilities for research and refer-ence;
(c)
subject to the terms and conditions on which they are acquired to reproduce or publish any pub-lic archives;
(d)
to examine any records in the custody of a public office and to advise such office as to the care and custody of such records;
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Brunei National Archives
(e)
to accept and preserve any records which are transferred to the Brunei National Archives;
(f)
at the request of any administrative head of a public office, to return to that office for such period as may be agreed upon between the Direc-tor and the administrative head and subject to such conditions as the Director may prescribe, the pub-lic records transferred from that office to the
Brunei National Archives;
(g)
to acquire by purchase, donation, bequest or otherwise any document, book or other mate-rial which in the opinion of the Director is or is likely to be of enduring nati'onal or historical value; and
(h)
to perform such other functions as are necessary for the purpose of the said management and control.
(2)
The provisions of paragraph (f) of subsection (1)
shall not be taken to require the Director to return any public records the condition of which does not warrant their removal out of the Brunei National Archives.
(3)
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to autho-rise the Director to inspect the contents of any public re-cords that are secret or confidential, except with the consent of the administrative head of the public office having the custody thereof.