Ministry of National Insurance and successors: National Insurance Local Advisory...

PIN 30

1946-1969

This series contains files of the Ministry of National Insurance and successors relating to the National Insurance Local Advisory Committees concerning their functions, regulations and policies on appointments as well as the work of individual committees, selected on a regional basis.

LAC file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
• Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953
• Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966
• Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968

31 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

Series is not accruing.

Section 42 of the National Insurance Act 1946 made provision for the establishment of local advisory committees; such committees were constituted throughout Great Britain by the National Insurance (Local Advisory Committees) Regulations 1948. The chairman and members, representing both employers and insured persons, were appointed by the minister and each committee was reconstituted at three yearly intervals.

The duties of the committees were to consider and advise the minister on questions bearing on the administration of the National Insurance Acts and to bring to his notice any special problems arising from local conditions. In addition, from 1951 onwards, the committees gave the minister advice on the selection of those appointed to panels from which local tribunals constituted under s. 43 of the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 were drawn.

Following the establishment of the Ministry of Social Security in 1966, the 224 committees were amalgamated with the 74 National Assistance Board local advisory committees and the number reduced to 141. They were abolished by s. 9 of the Social Security Act 1971.