The Uttar Pradesh Public Records Act, 2025
The Uttar Pradesh Public Records Act, 2025
The Uttar Pradesh Public Records Act, 2025, regulates the management, preservation, retirement, and disposal of public records, including physical and digital files. It applies to all state government departments, offices, statutory bodies, commissions, and state-controlled corporations, alongside designated records officers. This law matters because it ensures administrative accountability and protects public heritage by standardizing how government information is stored. By preventing the unauthorized destruction or export of official documents and granting researchers access to older, unclassified archives, it safeguards the state's historical legacy. Violations carry strict penalties, including fines and imprisonment, to protect vital public administration history.
- 1. Short title and commencement
- 2. Difinitions
- 3. Power of the State Govemnment to co-ordinate, regulate and supervise operations connected with administration, management, etc., of public records
- 4. Prohibition against taking of public records out of Uttar Pradesh
- 5. Records Officer
- 6. Responsibilities of Records Officer
- 7. Records Officer to take appropriate action in the event of unauthorised removal, destruction, etc., of public records in his custody
- 8. Destruction or disposal of public records
- 9. Penalty for contraventions
- 10. Public records bearing security classifications
- 11. Receipts of records from private sources
- 12. Access to public records
- 13. State Archival Advisory Board
- 14. Functions of the Board
- 15. Powers of Director to lay down norms and standards for cources in archival science
- 16. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 17. Power to make rules
- 18. Laying of rules before State Legislature
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