Section 21: Power of Director over places of deposit

(1) Where the Minister declares a place of deposit under section 20 of this Act, the Director shall make arrangement with the authority responsible for that place for the appointment, as occasion may require, of a suitable person as custodian of the public archives kept therein.
(2) The Director shall have access to a place of deposit and may exercise, in relation to any place of deposit and to the public archives therein, the functions conferred on him by this Act in relation to the National Archives and the public archives therein and delegate to the custodian of the public archives in any such place any of those functions other than the power of affixing the seal of the Director of National Archives.