Singapore legislation
Clause 2
Clause 2
Interpretation
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —“Centre” means the National Records Centre established under section 3 of this Act;“current records” means those public records which are preserved by the departments which produce or receive them, because they are required for reference in order to complete the business to which they relate;“Director” means the Director of National Records appointed under section 4 of this Act;“intermediate records” means those public records which although no longer required as current records, cannot be destroyed, either because they possess contemporary value or because they have been assessed as suitable, after further consideration and classification, for eventual inclusion in the Centre;“public archives” means those public records which —
are more than twenty-five years old; and
are specified by the Director as being of enduring national or historical value;“public office” means any department, office, institution, agency, commission, board, corporation, local authority or statutory body or any other office of the Government or branch or sub-division thereof, and includes any other body as the President may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a public office;“public records” means papers, documents, records, registers, printed materials, books, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, micro-films, cinematograph films and sound recordings of any kind whatsoever, produced or received by any public office in the transaction of official business, or by any officer in the course of his official duties, and includes current records, intermediate records and public archives;“Records Committee” means the Committee established under section 5 of this Act.
Definition
“Centre” means the National Records Centre established under section 3 of this Act;
Definition
“current records” means those public records which are preserved by the departments which produce or receive them, because they are required for reference in order to complete the business to which they relate;
Definition
“Director” means the Director of National Records appointed under section 4 of this Act;
Definition
“intermediate records” means those public records which although no longer required as current records, cannot be destroyed, either because they possess contemporary value or because they have been assessed as suitable, after further consideration and classification, for eventual inclusion in the Centre;
Definition
“public archives” means those public records which —
are more than twenty-five years old; and
are specified by the Director as being of enduring national or historical value;
Definition
“public office” means any department, office, institution, agency, commission, board, corporation, local authority or statutory body or any other office of the Government or branch or sub-division thereof, and includes any other body as the President may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a public office;
Definition
“public records” means papers, documents, records, registers, printed materials, books, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, micro-films, cinematograph films and sound recordings of any kind whatsoever, produced or received by any public office in the transaction of official business, or by any officer in the course of his official duties, and includes current records, intermediate records and public archives;
Definition
“Records Committee” means the Committee established under section 5 of this Act.