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LAW OF THE AZERBAIJAN REPUBLIC

of June 22, 1999 No. 694-IQ

About National Archive Fund

(as amended on 08-08-2023)

This Law governs the relations connected with forming, storage, use of National Archive Fund and activities of archives in the Azerbaijan Republic.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

The basic concepts used in this Law express the following values:

archive - set of archive documents, the archive organizations or structural divisions of organizations, the companies performing their completing, registration, storage and use;

National Archive Fund - set of documents irrespective of their type, the place of creation and storage, pattern of ownership which are reflecting the material and spiritual life of people, having historical, scientific, economic, political, social and cultural value, considered as integral part of cultural heritage of the Azerbaijani people;

archive fund - set of the archive documents connected with each other from the historical and logical points of view;

archiving - completing, storage, registration of archives and the organization of archive agency;

the archive document - the document stored or which is subject to storage, having historical, scientific, cultural value for the state, society or the owner irrespective of data carrier type;

the Public Records Office - the state organization of archive agency, the performing archiving;

temporary storage of archive documents - storage of archive documents by state bodies and local government bodies, public and non-state institutions, companies and organizations in time, provided by this Law;

permanent storage of archive documents - dead storage of these documents in archives, the museums and libraries;

documentary monument - the archive document having rare or special historical and cultural value, referred in accordance with the established procedure to category "documentary monument";

the owner of archive documents - the subject having right of possession or uses of archive documents;

the owner of archive documents - the subject performing in full right of possession and uses of archive documents, orders them in the limits determined by the legislation;

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