{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1958/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1958/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Public Records Act 1958",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-act-1958",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Destruction of public records in Public Record Office or other place of deposit.",
  "text": "If, as respects any public records in the Public Record Office or any place of deposit appointed under this Act, it appears to the Keeper of Public Records that they are duplicated by other public records which have been selected for permanent preservation or that there is some other special reason why they should not be permanently preserved, he may, with the approval of the Secretary of State and of the Minister or other person, if any, who appears to the Secretary of State to be primarily concerned with public records of the class in question, authorise the destruction of those records or, with that approval, their disposal in any other way.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (9.12.2015) by The Transfer of Functions (Information and Public Records) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1897), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(3)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6: transfer of functions (9.12.2015) by The Transfer of Functions (Information and Public Records) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1897), arts. 1(2), 6(1)(a), (2)(f) (with art. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/6-7/51/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:46.811020+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}