Section 4

shall direct, manage and control the Centre;

shall examine the public records in any public office and advise the office as to their care and custody;

shall preserve, describe and arrange all public archives;

shall accept, store and preserve any public records transferred to the Centre;

shall conduct a records management programme for the efficient creation, utilisation, maintenance, retention, preservation and disposal of public records;

shall, at the request of any administrative head of a public office, return any public records transferred from that office to the Centre for such period as may be agreed upon and subject to such conditions as the Director may prescribe;

shall publish such guides, inventories and other publications as are required from time to time to make known the holdings of the Centre;

may, if in his opinion it is necessary for their better preservation, bind or repair any public records that have been transferred to the Centre;

may, subject to the terms and conditions if any on which they were acquired, reproduce or publish any public archives;

may make available for inspection, for the purpose of reference or research, any public archives;

may acquire by purchase, donation, bequest or otherwise any document, book or other material which in the opinion of the Director is or is likely to be of enduring or historical value; and

may perform such other functions as are necessary for the purpose of the direction, management and control of the Centre.