VOLUME 8
RESTRICTED
(13.10)
available for public inspection 30 years after the date of their creation. In letters notifying members of the public that correspondence in the custody of the Public Record Office is open to public inspection, the following wording should be used: "Subject to the rules and regulations of the Public Record Office, which will be explained to you at that Office, the correspondence is open for public inspection and no permit from this Department is necessary".
13.10.2 Any request received by a DT Department for access to records, whether from other Government Departments, institutions, members of the public or persons in a DT, should be registered on the files of Library and Records Department and referred in the first instance to the Head of the Records Branch. Library and Records Department deals with questions concerning DT Government archives. The Head of Records Branch must always be consulted when questions about the safe-keeping or disposal of Colonial Government archives arise. This is particularly important when pre-independence negotiations are being conducted.
October 1978
61
RESTRICTED
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.