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PUBLIC RECORDS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1923 - SECT 1

1.(1) There shall be established a Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
for the reception and preservation of public records to which this Act
applies.

(2) This Act shall apply to the following public records:

(a)Northern Ireland records, that is to say, all records of any court,
Government department, authority or office in Northern Ireland with respect to
which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws, and

(b)Imperial records, that is to say, public records appertaining to Northern
Ireland to which this Act may be applied by any order made by the Governor of
Northern Ireland in Council under the provisions of this Act, and not being
Northern Ireland Records.

(3) For the purposes of this Act the expression "records" means rolls,
records, writs, books, proceedings, decrees, bills, warrants, accounts, maps,
papers and documents of a public nature.

© 1923 Crown Copyright

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