On the National Archival Fund and the National Archives
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Law of Georgia
On the National Archival Fund and the National Archives
Article 1🔗
This Law determines the legal status of the National Archival Fund and the National Archives of Georgia, the principles of assigning documents to the National Archival Fund, and matters of their protection and use.
Article 2🔗
The main objectives of this Law are:
a) determination of the principles and system of archive management in Georgia;
b) establishment of the main principles of protection, replenishment and recording of the National Archival Fund and of the use of the documents of the National Archival Fund;
c) (removed - 20.12.2011, No. 5571).
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571 - website, 28.12.2011.
Article 3🔗
1. The National Archival Fund is the aggregate of those documents (regardless of the type of their carrier) existing on the territory of Georgia which have historical, religious, scientific, political, economic, cultural, state and/or public value. The National Archival Fund also includes documents kept in other states which, in accordance with the international treaties of Georgia, must be returned or transferred to Georgia.
2. The State shall be obliged to take care of the replenishment, storage, protection and use of the National Archival Fund.
3. A document of the National Archival Fund, regardless of the place and time of its creation, the place of storage, the form of ownership and the type of carrier (material and/or electronic), shall be kept permanently.
4. The list of those documents of the National Archival Fund which are subject to storage in the form of an electronic carrier shall be determined by order of the Minister of Justice of Georgia. Those documents of the National Archival Fund which are not reflected in the said list shall be kept in the form of material and electronic carriers.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Article 4🔗
Institutions of state authority and municipal bodies, as well as those institutions, organizations and enterprises which in the course of their activity create documents intended for transfer to the National Archival Fund (including secret documents), shall be obliged to ensure the protection, storage, processing and recording of all documents created in the course of their activity and the annual conduct of appraisal expertise for them in accordance with the rules of record-keeping and of the operation of institutional archives, which are approved by order of the Minister of Justice of Georgia (hereinafter – the Minister).
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 15 July 2020 No. 6882 – website, 28.07.2020.
Article 5🔗
1. A document created in the course of the activity of a state authority or a state institution is state property, a document created in the course of the activity of a local self-government (municipality) body is municipal property, while a document created or lawfully acquired by a natural or legal person is its property.
2. Alienation of the documents of the National Archival Fund held in state and municipal ownership shall be inadmissible.
3. A document of the National Archival Fund that has no owner passes into state ownership and is transferred to the National Archives.
Law of Georgia of 15 July 2020 No. 6882 – website, 28.07.2020.
Article 6🔗
1. Archival affairs in Georgia shall be managed and the improvement of record-keeping and the development of the National Archival Fund shall be ensured by the Legal Entity of Public Law within the governance sphere of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia (hereinafter – the Ministry) – the National Archives of Georgia (hereinafter – the National Archives).
2. The National Archives shall ensure the replenishment of the National Archival Fund, the centralized recording of documents (including in electronic form), description, the formation of an electronic database of the documents of the National Archival Fund and its constant updating, the conservation-restoration of damaged documents and the creation of an insurance fund for documents of special value, free access to the documents of the National Archival Fund within the limits established by the legislation of Georgia; the National Archives, using the documents of the National Archival Fund, prepares booklets, brochures, various types of publications (including in the form of electronic media), with the right of their subsequent sale in the manner established by the legislation of Georgia.
3. The National Archives has the right of state control and supervision over the recording, protection and storage of the documents of the National Archival Fund (including monuments of cultural heritage existing in the National Archival Fund), regardless of their place of storage.
4. The National Archives shall exercise control over compliance with the rules existing in record-keeping and shall supervise the implementation of this Law.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Article 7🔗
The Ministry shall ensure:
a) material, technical and organizational support for the exercise of powers by the National Archives and its territorial bodies;
b) the development and issuance of normative acts regulating the system and activity of the National Archives;
b¹) supervision of the lawfulness, expediency and effectiveness of the activity of the National Archives and of its financial-economic activity;
c) the exercise of other powers provided by the legislation of Georgia.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5600 - website, 13.07.2016.
Article 8🔗
1. The structural units of the National Archives are the central apparatus and the central archives.
2. The National Archives manages archival affairs through structural units and territorial bodies – regional archives, local archives and local representations.
3. The National Archives is headed by a Director General, who is appointed to and dismissed from office by the Minister. The procedure for selecting the Director General of the National Archives is determined by the legislation of Georgia.
4. Deputy Directors General of the National Archives are appointed to and dismissed from office by the Minister. The procedure for selecting the Deputy Directors General of the National Archives is determined by the legislation of Georgia.
4¹. Employees of the National Archives are appointed to office in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.
5. The statute of the National Archives is approved by the Minister.
6. The Director General of the National Archives has the right, in the cases provided for by the statute, to delegate his/her powers in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.
7. The staff list and the cost estimate of the National Archives are approved by the Director General of the National Archives in agreement with the Ministry.
8. The material and technical support of the National Archives is provided from state budget funds and other revenues determined by the legislation of Georgia.
9. The National Archives may carry out economic activity corresponding to its functions, and dispose of the received revenues for the expansion of the material and technical base, the improvement of the storage and protection of documents, additional remuneration of employees and other purposes provided for by this Law and the statute of the National Archives.
10. The National Archives has its own seal bearing the image of the State Coat of Arms of Georgia and bank accounts permitted by the legislation of Georgia.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 22 March 2011 No. 4465 – website, 01.04.2011
Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5600 – website, 13.07.2016
Article 9🔗
1. The areas of operation of the territorial bodies of the National Archives and of those structural units – central archives – whose activities extend over a certain part of the territory of Georgia shall be determined by order of the Minister.
2. Regional and local archives shall permanently preserve the documents of the National Archival Fund created in their areas of operation. Regional and local archives and local representations shall manage archival affairs in the respective territory.
3. Regional and local archives shall be headed by directors, and local representations – by local representatives, who shall be appointed to and dismissed from office in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia by the General Director of the National Archives.
4. The statute of a territorial body shall be approved by the General Director of the National Archives.
5. Material and technical support of a territorial body shall be provided from the funds of the State Budget and other revenues determined by the legislation of Georgia.
6. A territorial body shall have its own seal bearing the image of the State Coat of Arms of Georgia.
7. The National Archives shall supervise the lawfulness, expediency and effectiveness of the activities carried out by a territorial body.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5600 – website, 13.07.2016
Article 10🔗
In the Autonomous Republics of Abkhazia and Adjara, archival affairs shall be managed by the respective bodies within the structure of the executive authority, whose scope of competence, tasks and functions in archival activity shall be determined by this Law and the respective legislation.
Article 11🔗
1. The Expert-Appraisal Commission of the National Archives shall assign a document to the National Archival Fund on the basis of approval of the results of the appraisal expertise.
2. The selection and processing of documents and the conduct of appraisal expertise for them shall be carried out in accordance with the rules of record-keeping and of the operation of institutional archives.
Article 12🔗
1. The National Archival Fund shall be replenished with documents that:
a) were created in the course of the activities of state authorities, local self-government (municipality) bodies and institutions, legal entities of self-governing units (municipalities) and legal entities of public law;
b) were transferred to the state or a self-governing unit (municipality) on the basis of legal succession;
c) have passed into the ownership of the state or a municipality by way of gift, transfer by will, sale, or another lawful basis;
d) were created in the course of the activities of political organizations;
e) were created in the course of the activities of legal entities of private law, regardless of their form of ownership;
f) are the property of natural and legal persons.
2. The documents referred to in the first paragraph of Article 12 of this Law shall be mandatorily submitted for appraisal expertise for the purpose of assigning them to the National Archival Fund.
3. The assignment of a document to the National Archival Fund does not mean a change of its owner.
Law of Georgia No. 6882 of 15 July 2020 – website, 28.07.2020.
Article 13🔗
1. State authorities and municipalities, legal entities of public law, as well as state and municipal institutions, organizations and enterprises shall be obliged, at their own expense, to carry out the selection and processing of documents created in the course of their activities.
2. The State shall ensure the selection and processing of the documents referred to in subparagraphs "b" and "c" of paragraph 1 of Article 12 of this Law.
3. Public organizations, political associations, legal entities, regardless of the form of ownership, shall be obliged, at their own expense, to carry out the selection and processing of the documents belonging to them and the appraisal expertise thereof, while the costs of the appraisal expertise of documents belonging to natural persons shall be borne by the National Archives.
3¹. The subjects defined by paragraph 3 of this Article shall be entitled to ensure the selection and processing of the documents belonging to them and the appraisal expertise thereof through legal entities of private law accredited by the National Archives, on the basis of a contract concluded with them. The accreditation rules and criteria, as well as the amount of the accreditation fee, shall be determined by the Minister. Accredited legal entities of private law shall submit to the National Archives, by 31 December of each year, information on the selection and processing of documents and the appraisal expertise thereof carried out by them during the year.
4. If there is a reasonable assumption that a document is of special value, the contract concluded between its owner and the National Archives may provide for full or partial coverage by the National Archives of the costs of the appraisal expertise of that document.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 12 November 2010 No. 3809 - LHG I, No. 65, 26.11.2010, Art. 411
Law of Georgia of 15 July 2020 No. 6882 – website, 28.07.2020
Article 14🔗
1. The documents of the National Archival Fund shall be permanently preserved by the National Archives and its territorial bodies – regional and local archives, as well as the respective bodies of the Autonomous Republics of Abkhazia and Adjara.
2. The right to permanently preserve the documents of the National Archival Fund shall be held by:
a) the Legal Entity of Public Law − the National Library of Georgia named after Ilia Chavchavadze;
b) the archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia;
c) the Legal Entity of Public Law within the area of governance of the Ministry of Culture of Georgia – the National Centre of Manuscripts of Georgia named after Korneli Kekelidze;
d) the Legal Entity of Public Law within the area of governance of the Ministry of Culture of Georgia − the National Museum of Georgia and other museums, as well as the Legal Entity of Public Law − the National Research Centre for the History of Georgian Art and Protection of Monuments named after Giorgi Chubinashvili;
d¹) the Legal Entity of Public Law within the system of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia – the National Agency of Mineral Resources − in respect of the documents of the State Geological Fund;
e) the Legal Entity of Public Law within the system of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia – the National Environment Agency − in respect of the documents of the National Hydrometeorology and Environmental Pollution Fund;
e¹) the authorised Legal Entity of Public Law determined by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia;
e²) the State Security Service of Georgia;
f) the Legal Entity of Public Law within the system of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia – the National Agency for Standards and Metrology of Georgia − in respect of the documents of the National Information Fund;
g) private archives, except for documents created in the course of the activities of state authorities and local self-government (municipality) bodies and institutions, and legal entities of self-governing units (municipalities);
h) the Legal Entity of Public Law within the system of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia – the State Agency for Oil and Gas – in respect of primary geological, geophysical and geochemical information in the field of oil, gas and natural hydrogen, data on the interpretation of this information, production data and documents related thereto.
2¹. Control over the preservation and protection of the documents of the National Archival Fund by private archives shall be exercised by the National Archives. The rules for the functioning of private archives shall be determined by order of the Minister.
3. If a person referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article refuses to permanently preserve a document of the National Archival Fund, he/she shall be obliged to transfer the said document to the National Archives. The costs of transferring the document shall be borne by the State.
4. A public organisation, a political association, a legal entity, regardless of the form of ownership, as well as a natural person shall have the right to preserve his/her/its document belonging to the National Archival Fund if he/she/it ensures its protection.
5. The conditions for the storage and protection of documents of the National Archival Fund shall be determined by the National Archives and approved by the Minister by order.
6. The persons listed in the first paragraph and the second paragraph of this Article (except subparagraph „g“ of the second paragraph) shall be prohibited from alienating a document of the National Archival Fund.
7. The procedure and conditions for the alienation of a document of the National Archival Fund to a person shall be determined by order of the Minister.
Law of Georgia of 15 July 2008 No. 201 - LHG I, No. 17, 28.07.2008, Art. 125
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 15 December 2010 No. 4070 - LHG I, No. 74, 24.12.2010, Art. 460
Law of Georgia of 11 March 2011 No. 4396 - website, 17.03.2011
Law of Georgia of 22 March 2011 No. 4469 - website, 01.04.2011
Law of Georgia of 25 October 2011 No. 5141 - website, 31.10.2011
Law of Georgia of 8 May 2012 No. 6161 - website, 25.05.2012
Law of Georgia of 22 June 2012 No. 6539 - website, 04.07.2012
Law of Georgia of 25 March 2013 No. 457 – website, 05.04.2013
Law of Georgia of 8 July 2015 No. 3968 - website, 15.07.2015
Law of Georgia of 25 November 2015 No. 4549 - website, 08.12.2015
Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5600 - website, 13.07.2016
Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1699 – website, 14.12.2017
Law of Georgia of 5 July 2018 No. 3038 - website, 11.07.2018
Law of Georgia of 15 July 2020 No. 6882 – website, 28.07.2020
Law of Georgia of 16 March 2021 No. 341 – website, 18.03.2021
Law of Georgia of 13 June 2023 No. 3134 – website, 27.06.2023
Law of Georgia of 30 November 2023 No. 3828 – website, 15.12.2023
Law of Georgia of 12 December 2024 No. 98 - website, 28.12.2024
Law of Georgia of 6 February 2025 No. 265 - website, 06.02.2025
Law of Georgia of 13 May 2025 No. 559 – website, 16.05.2025
Law of Georgia of 12 June 2025 No. 674 – website, 16.06.2025
Law of Georgia of 26 November 2025 No. 1113 – website, 28.11.2025
Article 15🔗
1. The holder of a document of the National Archival Fund shall be obliged to ensure the storage and protection of the document.
2. Destruction of a document of the National Archival Fund shall be prohibited.
3. If the holder of a document of the National Archival Fund fails to ensure the storage and protection of the document, it shall be transferred to the National Archives for deposit storage on the basis of an act of the commission of the National Archives. The decision of the commission may be appealed in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.
4. If the holder of a document of the National Archival Fund intentionally or through negligence violates the conditions for the storage and protection of documents of the National Archival Fund, the National Archives shall have the right to bring an action before the court for the seizure of the document from him and its transfer to the National Archives.
5. In the event of loss, damage or change of the place of storage of a document of the National Archival Fund, the holder (owner) of the document shall notify the National Archives thereof.
6. Failure to comply with the requirements of paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 of this Article shall entail liability in accordance with the legislation of Georgia.
Article 16🔗
A natural or legal person may transfer its document to the National Archives for deposit storage. The National Archives shall be obliged to accept a document of the National Archival Fund for deposit storage if the holder (owner) fails to ensure its protection.
Article 17🔗
1. For the purpose of temporary storage of documents of the National Archival Fund, a structural subdivision may be created within the structure of state authorities, municipal city halls, as well as legal entities of public and private law, or their storage may be assigned to one of the structural subdivisions. Documents of the National Archival Fund shall be stored in accordance with the rules developed by the National Archives and approved by order of the Minister.
2. State authorities and municipal bodies, as well as other persons, shall be obliged to ensure the storage and protection of documents of the National Archival Fund until their transfer to the National Archives and its territorial bodies, as appropriate.
2¹. Those bodies/institutions which, in the course of their activities, create documents of the National Archival Fund shall be obliged to transfer the said documents to the National Archives in the form of both electronic and material carriers.
3. The maximum periods for the storage of documents of the National Archival Fund by the persons referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shall be approved by order of the Minister.
4. If a threat of loss or damage of a document arises, it shall be immediately transferred to the National Archives for storage until the relevant threat is eliminated.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 15 July 2020 No. 6882 – website, 28.07.2020.
Article 18🔗
1. In the event of the death of a natural person who owns a document of the National Archival Fund or of the reorganisation of an organisation/institution, his/her heir or legal successor shall be obliged to notify the National Archives and/or its territorial body of his/her identity and of the place where the document is kept. The heir or legal successor shall be obliged to ensure the storage and protection of the document in accordance with the rules developed by the National Archives and approved by order of the Minister.
2. During the liquidation of a legal entity in which a document of the National Archival Fund is kept, the liquidators shall ensure free access of a representative of the National Archives to this document. The costs of processing the said document and of transferring it to the National Archives shall be borne by the liquidators.
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 - LHG I, No. 20, 28 July 2008, Art. 103
Article 19🔗
The storage and protection of documents of the National Archival Fund shall be financed:
a) from the State Budget;
b) by the owner;
c) by grants issued by international organisations;
d) by donations;
e) from other funds not prohibited by the legislation of Georgia.
Article 20🔗
In the field of the protection of the National Archival Fund, tax, utility and other benefits shall be determined by the relevant legislation.
Article 21🔗
1. Documents of the National Archival Fund shall be registered in a centralised manner, regardless of the place where they are kept. Documents shall be registered as funds (collections) and as storage units. The centralised registration of documents of the National Archival Fund shall be carried out by the National Archives.
2. A person who keeps a document of the National Archival Fund shall be obliged to carry out its scientific and technical processing and to complete the certificate of centralised registration of the document.
3. The rules for the centralised registration of documents of the National Archival Fund and the form of the certificate of centralised registration of a document shall be developed by the National Archives and approved by the Minister by order. Institutions entitled to permanently store documents of the National Archival Fund shall be obliged to submit the registration data of the documents to the National Archives in the established form and at the established frequency.
Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5600 - website, 13 July 2016
Article 22🔗
1. Access to the documents of the National Archival Fund is free, except for the cases provided for by paragraph 4 of this Article and paragraph 1 of Article 23 of this Law. An interested person may, through the information retrieval system, search for and review a document of the National Archival Fund or a copy thereof, make an extract from the document and benefit from the information services of the National Archives. The rules for access to a document of state ownership shall be developed by the National Archives and approved by Order of the Minister, while the rules for access to a document belonging to a natural or legal person shall be approved by the respective person. An interested person granted access to a document shall be given the opportunity to review the document.
2. The amount of the fee established for the services rendered by the National Archives, the rules and conditions of payment, the types of services and the time limits shall be determined by a Resolution of the Government of Georgia.
3. Temporary use of a copy of a document of the National Archival Fund for exhibition or other purposes shall be permitted. The original of a document shall be used for exhibition purposes in accordance with the rules determined by the Minister.
4. Access to the following documents of the National Archival Fund shall be restricted:
a) to documents containing state secrets – for the period determined by the Law of Georgia "On State Secrets";
b) to documents containing personal data of citizens, except for documents containing citizens' ownership rights, as well as access by other persons to materials of criminal proceedings – for 75 years from their creation, unless a shorter period is established by agreement between the National Archives and the persons directly concerned by these materials.
5. A person's personal data shall be issued in accordance with subparagraph "b" of paragraph 4 of this Article and the Law of Georgia "On Personal Data Protection".
Law of Georgia No. 1458 of 16 July 2009 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia No. 1921 of 3 November 2009 – LHG I, No. 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 231
Law of Georgia No. 5571 of 20 December 2011 – website, 28.12.2011
Law of Georgia No. 5600 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.07.2016
Article 23🔗
1. A person shall have the right to request the National Archives not to permit the use or public display of a document belonging to that person for a period determined by that person, which shall not exceed 75 years from its creation.
2. The request referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article may also be made upon the alienation of a document, or upon its transfer for use or for deposit storage.
Article 24🔗
It shall be inadmissible to make changes in the text of a document of the National Archival Fund for the purpose of altering its form and content, including the information conveyed therein, as well as to falsify or physically damage the document.
Law of Georgia No. 5600 of 24 June 2016 – website, 13.07.2016
Article 25🔗
When publishing a document of the National Archival Fund, it shall be mandatory to indicate the place of storage of the document and/or the owner.
Article 26🔗
A person with whom a document of the National Archival Fund is kept shall, on the basis of a contract concluded with an interested person, issue a certified copy of the document, a certificate or an extract from the document.
Article 27. (removed)🔗
Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5600 – website, 13.07.2016.
Article 28🔗
1. The owner of a document of the National Archival Fund shall, before the alienation of the document, notify the National Archives in advance of the terms of alienation, and after its alienation – of the identity of the new owner of the document.
2. A person engaged in entrepreneurial activity related to documents of the National Archival Fund shall submit to the National Archives data on the documents intended for the entrepreneurial activity.
3. If a person sells his/her document, the National Archives has a preferential right to purchase it.
4. A transaction concluded in violation of the requirements of this article shall be considered void.
Article 29🔗
The decision on the temporary export of a document of the National Archival Fund abroad shall be adopted by the Ministry in agreement with the Ministry of Culture of Georgia.
Law of Georgia of 3 November 2009 No. 1921 – LHG I, No. 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 231
Law of Georgia of 25 November 2015 No. 4549 – website, 08.12.2015.
Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1699 – website, 14.12.2017.
Law of Georgia of 5 July 2018 No. 3038 – website, 11.07.2018.
Law of Georgia of 16 March 2021 No. 341 – website, 18.03.2021.
Law of Georgia of 30 November 2023 No. 3828 – website, 15.12.2023.
Law of Georgia of 12 December 2024 No. 98 – website, 28.12.2024.
Article 30. (removed)🔗
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571 – website, 28.12.2011.
Article 31. (removed)🔗
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571 – website, 28.12.2011.
Article 32. (removed)🔗
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571 – website, 28.12.2011.
Article 33. (removed)🔗
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571 – website, 28.12.2011.
Article 34. (removed)🔗
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571 – website, 28.12.2011.
Article 35. (removed)🔗
Law of Georgia of 16 July 2009 No. 1458 – LHG I, No. 20, 28.07.2008, Art. 103
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571 – website, 28.12.2011.
Article 36🔗
1. For the purpose of developing archival affairs in Georgia, cooperation of the National Archives with the respective institutions of other states and international organizations includes the exchange of documents of the National Archival Fund between persons and, in accordance with the procedure established by this Law, the admission of foreign citizens or legal entities and international organizations to the documents of the National Archival Fund.
2. The exchange of the original of a document of the National Archival Fund for that of another state shall be possible only in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia.
Article 37🔗
Liability for violation of the requirements of this Law shall be determined by the legislation of Georgia.
Article 38🔗
1. Within one month from the entry into force of this Law, the Government of Georgia shall ensure:
a) the introduction of the respective amendment to the Regulation of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia approved by Resolution No. 70 of the Government of Georgia of 30 August 2004 "On approval of the Regulation of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia";
b) the transfer of the respective property, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia, to the Legal Entity of Public Law within the governance sphere of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia – the National Archives of Georgia.
2. Within three months from the entry into force of this Law, the Minister of Justice of Georgia shall ensure:
a) the issuance of the following orders:
a.a) "On approval of the Regulation of the Legal Entity of Public Law – the National Archives";
a.b) "On the rules of case management and the operation of institutional archives";
a.c) "On the maximum periods of temporary storage of documents of the National Archival Fund in institutions";
a.d) "On the rules of centralized accounting of documents of the National Archival Fund";
a.e) "On the rules of admission to the documents of state ownership of the National Archival Fund";
b) the compliance of the existing subordinate acts with this Law.
3. Within one month from the entry into force of this Law, the Minister of Finance of Georgia shall ensure the introduction of amendments to Order No. 136 of the Minister of Finance of Georgia of 15 March 2005 "On approval of treasury codes of budget receipts".
4. In accordance with the requirements of the Organic Law of Georgia "On Local Self-Government", for the purpose of promoting the activity of local archives, self-governing units shall ensure the financing of the territorial bodies of the National Archives of Georgia – local archives until 1 January 2010.
5. The executive authority shall ensure the allocation of the respective funding from the state budget in 2008–2013 for the purpose of centralized accounting of documents of the National Archival Fund and the creation of an insurance fund.
Article 39🔗
Upon the entry into force of this Law, the following shall be declared invalid:
a) Law of Georgia of 2 May 1995 "On the National Archival Fund" (Herald of the Parliament of Georgia, Nos. 27-30, 1994-95cc.cc., p. 75);
b) Order No. 1 of 12 February 2001 of the Chairman of the Archival State Department of Georgia "On approval of the tariffs for paid services to be rendered to institutions, organizations, enterprises and citizens by the state archives and the scientific-technical processing service under the Archival State Department of Georgia".
Article 40🔗
This Law shall enter into force on 1 January 2007.
President of Georgia M. Saakashvili
Tbilisi,
29 December 2006.
No. 4205–rs
Annex (removed)
Law of Georgia of 20 December 2011 No. 5571- website, 28.12.2011.