Archives Act
Amended by: 1999, c. 12, Sched. S.
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Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1990, Chapter A.27
Definitions
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In this Act,
"Archives"
means the Archives of Ontario; ("Archives publiques")
"Archivist" means the officer appointed
to administer this Act. ("archiviste") R.S.O.
1990, c. A.27, s. 1. |
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Archivist
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There shall be an Archivist
who shall be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in
Council with the rank of a Deputy Minister and who shall
be in charge of the administration of this Act under
the direction of the member of the Executive Council
to whom the administration of this Act is assigned.
R.S.O. 1990, c. A.27, s. 2; 1999, c. 12, Sched. S, s.
1 (1).
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Custody of original documents
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Subject to the regulations,
all original documents, parchments, manuscripts, papers,
records and other matters in the executive and administrative
departments of the Government or of the Assembly, or
of any commission, office or branch of the public service
shall be delivered to the Archives for safekeeping and
custody within twenty years from the date on which such
matters cease to be in current use. R.S.O. 1990, c.
A.27, s. 3. |
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Responsibility of Archives
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The Archivist is authorized
and directed to receive and grant discharges for all
such matters as are transferred to the Archives under
this Act and the Archives is thereafter responsible
for the safekeeping of the matters so transferred. R.S.O.
1990, c. A.27, s. 4. |
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Objects of Archives
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The objects of the Archives
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the classification, safekeeping,
indexing and cataloguing of all matters transferred
to the Archives under section 3;
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the discovery, collection
and preservation of material having any bearing upon
the history of Ontario;
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the copying and printing of important
public documents relating to the legislative or general
history of Ontario;
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the collecting of all documents having
in any sense a bearing upon the political or social
history of Ontario and upon its agricultural, industrial,
commercial or financial development;
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the collecting of municipal, school and
church records;
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the collection and preservation of pamphlets,
maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, regimental muster
rolls and other matters of general or local interest
historically in Ontario;
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the collection and preservation of information
respecting the early settlers of Ontario, including
pioneer experience, customs, mode of living, prices,
wages, boundaries, areas cultivated, and home and social
life;
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the collection and preservation of the
correspondence of settlers, documents in private hands
relating to public and social affairs and reports of
local events of historic interest in domestic and public
life;
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the conducting of research with a view
to preserving the memory of pioneer settlers in Ontario
and of their early exploits and the part taken by them
in opening up and developing the Province. R.S.O. 1990,
c. A.27, s. 5. |
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Preservation of official documents
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Subject to the regulations,
no official document, paper, pamphlet or report in the
possession of any ministry or branch of the public service
or of the Assembly shall be destroyed or permanently
removed without the knowledge and concurrence of the
Archivist. R.S.O. 1990, c. A.27, s. 6. |
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Certified copies
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A copy of any original document
in the custody of the Archivist, certified under the
Archivist's hand and seal to be a true copy, is proof,
in the absence of evidence to the contrary, of the authenticity
and correctness of such document. R.S.O. 1990, c. A.27,
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Regulations
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The Lieutenant Governor in
Council may make regulations, |
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respecting the administration
of the Archives and the duties of the Archivist;
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prescribing the matters that
shall be transferred to the Archives under this Act
and extending or reducing the period that shall elapse
before any such matters are transferred to the Archives;
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for the classification of
archives and other matters in the Archives and the preparation
of proper calendars, catalogues and indexes for the
purpose of making such archives and other matters accessible
for purposes of official, scientific and historical
research;
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directing the manner in which
documents, papers, pamphlets or reports in the office
of any member of the Executive Council or in any ministry
or branch of the public service or the Assembly shall
be disposed of from time to time and the class of documents,
papers, pamphlets or reports that shall be deemed to
be public archives. R.S.O. 1990, c. A.27, s. 8; 1999,
c. 12, Sched. S, s. 1 (2). |
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Effect of this Act
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Nothing in this Act shall
be taken or deemed to authorize the destruction or other
disposition of any official document, paper, map, plan,
report, memorandum or other matter in contravention
of any order of the Assembly or of any express provision
in any general or special Act of the Legislature. R.S.O.
1990, c. A.27, s. 9. |
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