Section 5: Designation of departmental records management officer

(1) A public office shall designate an officer of such seniority as the Minister shall, with the approval of the President, determine to be the departmental records management officer.
(2) The departmental records management officer shall have as his function or the main part of his functions the planning, development and organisation of records management programme for that office and shall have the following additional functions-
(a) afford to the Director such facilities for the examination and inspection of public records as are prescribed in section 6 of this Act;
(b) submit, with the assistance and under the guidance and supervision of the Director, retention and disposal schedules applying to all records not covered by the general schedules mentioned in section 8 (1) of this Act for the approval of the Minister;
(c) apply tested standards, procedures, techniques, materials and equipment in all matters relating to record making and record keeping, records preservation and protection, selective retention of records, records scheduling for disposal and transfer of records to a Records Centre or to the National Archives.