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(1) The Director shall be responsible for the preservation of all public records of permanent value other than any whose transfer may have been deferred under section 9(c) or held in a place of deposit under section 13 of this Act and shall in particular-

(a) take charge of the National Archives and regional archival repositories;

(b) provide in the National Archives, regional archival repositories and in any other archival repository which he may establish suitable conditions for the preservation of the records and access for their consultation by the public;

(c) arrange and describe the records therein and provide appropriate guides, lists indexes and aids to facilitate access to them;

(d) arrange for reasonable facilities to be available to the public for inspecting and obtaining copies of public records in the National Archives or any other archival repository under his control, in so far as such records are open to inspection by the public under this Act.

(2) The Director may do all such things as appear to him necessary or expedient for maintaining the utility of the National Archives and any other archival repository under his control, and may in particular-

(a) prepare and sell publications or objects related to the public records;

(b) prescribe administrative rules for admission of the public to National Archives or any other archival repository under his control;

(c) arrange exhibitions and lend public records for exhibitions subject to such conditions as he may specify, except that loans of public records outside Ghana may not be made without the approval of the Council;

(d) arrange for the transfer of public records to the National Archives or other archival repositories under his control or to a place of deposit designated under section 13 of this Act;

(e) dispose of public records in the National Archives or any other archival repository under his control if it seems to him that they are not of permanent value, subject to the agreement of the head of the public office in which they were created or its successor in function and with the approval of the Council;

(f) accept non-public records for safekeeping and acquire non-public records by purchase, gift, bequest or deposit, and

           (g) enter into arrangements with other institutions for the joint management of conservation and restoration facilities.