The authoress gives a survey of the organization of the
archive activity in Slovenia and of the archive legislation
from the beginnings of the archives between the World
Wars till foundation of the Central State Archive in
1945, reestablishment of the archive net in all Slovene
slate territory and its final formation after passing the
Slovene archive act in 1966. She also describes the organization
of the archives according to the Nature and Culture
Inheritance Act (1981).