Stasi Records Act

PART ONE
GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Article 1 Purpose and Scope
• Article 2 Registration, Safekeeping and Administration of the Records of the State Security Service
• Article 3 Individual Rights
• Article 4 Permissibility of Public and Private Bodies to Use Records of the State Security Service
• Article 5 Specifc Prohibited Use
• Article 6 Defnitions

PART TWO
REGISTRATION OF RECORDS

• Article 7 Location of Records  Duty to Report
• Article 8 Obligation of Public Bodies to Relinquish Records
• Article 9 Obligation of Private Bodies to Relinquish Records
• Article 10 Records of the German Socialist Unity Party and other Organizations and Mass Organizations as well as other Documents in Connections with the State Security Service
• Article 11 Returning and Relinquishing Records of other Authorities by the Federal Archives

PART THREE
USE OF THE STATE SECURITY SERVICE RECORDS

Chapter One
The Right of Persons Concerned, Third Parties, Employees and Benefciaries of the State Security Service

• Article 12 Procedural Provisions for Persons Concerned, Third Parties, Employees and Benefciaries of the State Security Service
• Article 13 The Right of Persons Concerned and Third Parties to the Receive Information and Inspect and Obtain Records
• Article 14 (repealed)
• Article 15 The Right of Near Relatives of Missing and Deceased Persons to Receive Information and Inspect and Obtain Records
• Article 16 The Right of Employees of the State Security Service to Receive Information and Inspect and Obtain Records
• Article 17 The Right of Benefciaries to the Receive Information and Inspect and Obtain Records
• Article 18 The Right to Receive Information and Inspect and Obtain Records in the Case of Court and Public Prosecutor Files of the State Security Service

Chapter Two
Use of State Security Records by Public and Private Bodies

• Article 19 Access to Records by Public and Private Bodies, Procedural Provisions
• Article 20 Use by Public and Private Bodies of Records not Containing Personal Data
• Article 21 Use by Public and Private Bodies of Records Containing Personal Data of Persons Concerned and Third Parties
• Article 22 Use of Records  Parliamentary Investigative Committees
• Article 23 Use of Records for Criminal Prosecution and to Avert Harm
• Article 24 Use of Court and Public Prosecutor Files of the State Security Service
• Article 25 Use of Records by Intelligence Services
• Article 26 Use of Service Regulations and Organizational Plans and Further Documents
• Article 27 Unsolicited Reports to Public Bodies
• Article 28 (repealed)
• Article 29 Limitations of Use
• Article 30 Notifcation
• Article 31 Judicial Review of Decisions of the Federal Archives at the Request of Authorities

Chapter Three
Use of Records for Political and Historical Reappraisal and by Press and Broadcasting Media

• Article 32 Use of Documents for Political and Historical Analysis
• Article 32 a Notifcation
• Article 33 Procedure
• Article 34 Use of Records by Press, Broadcasting Media and Film

PART FOUR
SPECIAL PROVISIONS

• Article 35 (repealed)
• Article 36 (repealed)
• Article 37 (repealed)
• Article 37 a Employment of Employees of the State Security Service
• Article 38 State Commissioners
• Article 39 Advisory Body
• Article 40 Measures to Safeguard Records
• Article 41 Automated Retrieval Procedures, Commissioned Data Processing

PART FIVE
FINAL PROVISIONS

• Article 42 (repealed)
• Article 42 a Court of Jurisdiction
• Article 43 Precedence of this Act
• Article 44 Criminal Offences
• Article 45 Administrative Offences
• Article 46 (repealed)
• Article 46 a Limitation of Civil Rights
• Article 47 Interim Regulation
• Article 48 Evaluation