Section 8: Assessment of practices in public office

(1) The Director shall, with the approval of the Minister, issue general schedules regarding the retention and disposal of records common to several or all public offices and a public office shall comply with such schedules.
(2) The Director shall assess, through periodical reviews of the records making and record keeping practices of the public offices-
(a) the adequacy of their records classification systems as a means of preventing loss of the records;
(b) the extent to which the important policies and programmes of the public office are documented for future research; and
(c) the extent to which records are scheduled for retention or disposal and given adequate storage and protection.
(3) The Director shall conduct researches and studies, develop and establish standards and procedures, for record making and record keeping, selective retention of records, scheduling of records for disposal, storage, security and preservation of records and their retirement to records centres or the National Archives.