naa:Function

The general or agency-specific business function(s) and activities which are documented by the record.

This group of elements documents the relationship between records and the functions/activities they represent. It acts as a resource discovery access point at a finer level of detail than that provided by the element M32 TITLE.

Conditional (must be present if the value of M33 Scheme Type is 'Functional')

Yes

Yes

Documentation, through recordkeeping, of activities and transactions pertaining to the agency’s core business functions will help to maintain agency accountability for its actions.

Use of this element will facilitate users’ searching capability at individual descriptor level, rather than just by the title as a whole.

Users should be able to search for records both by individual descriptors and by combining descriptors from the different levels.

The information recorded under element M93 MANDATE applies to the function(s) or function/activity pairs that describe the record. Agencies may choose to link the functions and activities documented under subelements M51 ACTIVITY DESCRIPTOR and M52 DATE to their specific mandates, as recorded in element M93 MANDATE.