1009

The Archivist shall be authorized to require the transfer of the following documents, subject to the availability of space in the Archives:\n(a) All documents dating from the days of Spain sovereignty.\n(b) All documents more than fifty (50) years old, exclusive of those preserved in the files of the Notarial Archives and in the Registries of Property.\n(c) All public documents which have belonged to an agency no longer in existence, unless such documents have been transferred by law to another government dependency.\n(d) All public documents, regardless of their antiquity, which in the opinion of the Program Administrators are deemed to have lost their administrative usefulness.\nProvided, however, That the transfer to the Archives of the documents described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not be made when the pertinent Administrator of the Public Documents Administration Program, as provided in § 1002a of this title, certifies in writing that the documents must remain in his custody for use in the current administration of the affairs of the dependencies under his jurisdiction.\nHistory —Dec. 8, 1955, No. 5, p. 78, § 11; June 4, 1979, No. 63, p. 126, § 3.