Search room.
Rules to be observed,
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(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding paragraphs of these Rules, the Archivist may, in his discretion. and in accordance with general instructions given to him by the Chief Secretary, permit access to public records without requiring the written application or the reference referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Rule.
8. Such public records as are, under the provisions of these Rules, permitted to be inspected shall be made available to the public in a search room in the Public Records Office.
9. All persons inspecting public records in the Public Records Office shall observe the following rules and any person failing to observe such rules may be denied further admission to the search room :
(a)
personal belongings such as bags, umbrellas and other items not reasonably required during the progress of the inspection shall be left at the entrance to the search room or in such other place as may be indicated by the officer in charge of the search room;
(b) within the search room all persons shall conduct
themselves in an orderly and quiet manner;
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smoking, eating and drinking shall be prohibited in the search room;
(a) no document shall be written on, marked or damaged
in any way;
(e)
no ink, paste or any other substance which may damage documents may be introduced into the search room;
(f) only pencils or ball-point pens may be used for
writing in the search room;
(g) no person shall rest the paper on which he is writing
or his arm on any document belonging to the Public Records Office nor shall he turn any opened bound volume face downward on the table nor use any bulky object as a book-mark;
(h) any person wishing to make a tracing from any
document shall use only such tracing sheet as may be supplied on request by the Public Records Office;
(i) no book or other document, the property of the
Public Records Office, shall be removed from the search room without the knowledge and approval of the officer in charge thereof; and
(j) where files or collections of loose documents are
produced for inspection, no person shall interfere with the existing sequence of the documents contained in such files or collections.