Power to make rules
22. (1) The Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for-
(a) selection of public records and private document and manuscripts for permanent preservation, their transfer to and deposit in the National Archives and the measures to be taken for their effective preservation in the National Archives;
(b) temporary deposit of any specified class or description of public records at places other than the National Archives pending their transfer to the National Archives;
(c) care and custody of public records in Government Departments and other institutions;
(d) public access to the public archives and the terms and conditions subject to which public archives of any specified class or description of public archives are open to inspection by the members of the public;
(e) prohibition or restriction of the disclosure of information obtained by the public from public archives;
(f) maintenance of secrecy by officers of the National Archives in respect of any class or description of public archives in respect of which secrecy is required to be maintained by or under any law;
(g) purchase from private individuals or organisations of manuscripts, documents and other printed matter of historical or cultural or literary value for permanent preservation in the National Archives;
(h) destruction of valueless records and documents in public offices and preparation of schedules therefore; and
(i) holding of exhibitions and expositions of public archives.