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Series
Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Solicitor's Department Files
Catalogue reference: PIN 31
What's it about?
PIN 31
This series contains files of the Legal Department of the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors concerning health and social security statutes and regulations.The files were registered in the L, LC, LP and LX series, and cover policy...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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PIN 31
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of National Insurance and successors: Solicitor's Department Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-2010
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Legal Department of the Ministry of National Insurance and its successors concerning health and social security statutes and regulations.
The files were registered in the L, LC, LP and LX series, and cover policy matters, the determination of legal questions, civil and criminal proceedings for fraud etc, and internal organization.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
- The series have the following designations
- L1-L900 - Routine questions
- L2000 et seq - Determination of legal questions
- LC - Civil proceedings, recoveries case files
- LC.98/ - Policy files
- LC/DOM - Internal organisation
- LP - Criminal prosecutions
- LX - Oral hearings, case files
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For other files relating to cases submitted to the minister for his decision under sections of the National Insurance Act 1946 and the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 see PIN 48
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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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L, LC, LP and LX 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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- Department for Work and Pensions, 2001-2001
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
- Department of Social Security, 1988-2001
- Ministry of National Insurance, 1944-1953
- Ministry of National Insurance, Solicitors Department, 1946-1947
- Ministry of Pensions, 1916-1953
- Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 1953-1966
- Ministry of Social Security, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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409 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Department of Health and Social Security From 1979
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Litigation
- Legal
- Crime
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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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General legal advice was given to the headquarters divisions on all branches of the work of the Solicitor's Department including court proceedings in both criminal and civil cases.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11544/
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