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National Records and Archives Law

The Union of Myanmar
The State Peace and Development Council
The Law Amending the National Archive and Mawgun Law, 2007

(The State Peace and Development Council Law No 2/2007)
The 6th Waxing Day of Taboung 1368 ME
(21st February, 2007)

The State Law and Order Restoration Council hereby enacts the following Law:-

1. This Law shall be called the Law Amending the National Archive and Mawgun Law, 2007.
   
2. Section 6 of the National Archive and Mawgun Law shall be substituted as follows:
  "6. (a) the government departments shall transfer the records in their possession which have completed 12 years and are no longer in use to the Department. Although 12 years have not been completed if they desire to transfer them to the Department, they may do so.

(b) the Department shall, after examining the records of the government departments which have completed 12 years, take over the records which are found to be no longer in use and which may be become mawgun.

(c) the government departments shall keep the records which may become mawgun under the examination of the Department out of the records which have completed 12 years but are still in use in accordance with the examination and direction of the Department. Such records shall be transferred to the Department when they are no longer in use.

(d) the Department may copy the records which may become mawgun as such."

3   Section 12 of the National Archive and Mawgun Law, shall be substituted as follows:-
  "12. The duties of the Director General are as follows:
(a) supervising the conservation and safe custody of the records and mawgun of the Department;

(b) communicating with government departments to obtain the records which are to be sent to the Department under sub-section (a) of section 6;

(c) receiving the records transferred by the government departments under sub-sections (a) and (c) of section 6;

(d) preparing the lists of mawgun series of the archives established by the government departments and other organizations and keeping them at the Department;

(e) carrying out duties assigned by the Minister and the Supervisory Body."

4   Section 14 of the National Archive and Mawgun Law shall be substituted as follows:-
  "14 No one shall destroy, after, add or in any manner ruin any mawgun or any record which may become mawgun under the examination of the Department as provided in sub-section (c) of section 6."

5   The expression "Kyats 10000" contained in section 18 of the National Archive and Mawgun Law shall be substituted by the expression "one hundred thousand kyats.

 

(Sd) Than Shwe
Senior General
Chairman
The State Pease and Development Council

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