and land applications.
Records Management
7.
management and disposal of
There is currently no legislation governing the
and disposal of public records in Hong Kong.
The PRO has no statutory power to require departments to
transfer records nor to direct record management procedures
within Government agencies. Instead, it operates under
administrative arrangements.
The Hong Kong
Practice provides
Government records
Government's Manual of Office
guidelines for the management
and advises departments to
Archivist before the destruction
of
seek
of
endorsement from the
records. However, as the Manual of Office Practice is only
advisory in nature, departments
are
not obliged to comply
The result is that while
with the procedures set down.
some departments do seek the advice of the PRO in the
management and disposal of records,
records, others do not.
stipulates the functions of the PRO as
Manual also
follows:
The
(a)
to help Government offices to maintain
satisfactory standards of records management
by providing
selection
records;
assistance in the evaluation,
and disposal of
non-current