Series
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division II and successors:...
Catalogue reference: MAF 369
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MAF 369
This series contains records of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food animal welfare branch and divisions from 1963 dealing with the welfare of all farm animal species on the farm, in transit to slaughterhouses or for export, and at...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 369
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division II and successors: Registered Files, Animal Welfare (AJ Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-2005
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food animal welfare branch and divisions from 1963 dealing with the welfare of all farm animal species on the farm, in transit to slaughterhouses or for export, and at slaughtering.
It includes many files dealing with the repercussions of the work of the Technical Committee to Enquire into the Welfare of Animals Kept Under Intensive Livestock Husbandry Systems (Brambell Committee). Other subjects of the series are the Slaughter of Poultry Act 1967; the European Convention for the protection of animals during international transport; the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 Part 1 (welfare of livestock); the work of the Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (FAWAC); and the Ponies Act 1969.
Many early files have pre-1965 papers re-registered from the TAY series ( MAF 287)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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AJ file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health Division II, 1965-1987
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Welfare and Protection Division, 1989-1992
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Welfare Division, 1992-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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451 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1997 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1965 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Technical Committee to Enquire into the Welfare of Animals Kept Under Intensive Livestock Husbandry Systems (Brambell Committee) was appointed by ministers to examine the conditions in which livestock was kept under systems of intensive husbandry and to advise whether standards should be set to safeguard its welfare interests and if so, what they should be. Its report was published in 1965 as Cmnd 2836.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10769/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments,...
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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division II and successors: Registered Files, Animal Welfare (AJ Series)