The Archives Management Section (Act No.3of 2002 sect 13) is responsible for:

a) Take charge of the National Archives;

b) To provide therein and in any other archival repositories under control and in suitable conditions for the preservation and consultation of their holdings;

c) To arrange and describe those holdings and provide appropriate guides lists, indexes and other finding aids to facilitate access;

d) To ensure that reasonable facilities are available to the public for inspecting and obtaining copies of public records in the National Archives or any other archival repository under control; and

e) To ensure that reasonable facilities are available to duly authorized officers of the public office which created them or its successor in function for inspecting and obtaining copies of public records in the National Archives.