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Records relating to the Regulation of Industrial and Provident Societies

Catalogue reference: Division within FS

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Records relating to the regulation of industrial and provident societies, including social clubs, housing societies, and various cooperatives.Documents relating to industrial and provident societies removed from the register before 1913 are in FS...

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Division within FS

Title
Records relating to the Regulation of Industrial and Provident Societies
Date

1850-1980

Description

Records relating to the regulation of industrial and provident societies, including social clubs, housing societies, and various cooperatives.

Documents relating to industrial and provident societies removed from the register before 1913 are in FS 8, and of those removed before 1951 in FS 17. Annual returns of industrial and provident societies removed from the register after 31 January 1950 are in FS 18; other statutory documents (rules and amendments, etc) of these societies are in FS 35

Related material

Statutory documents submitted to the Registry of some industrial and provident societies registered or certified under the Acts of 1793 to 1855 and removed from the register before 1875 are in FS 1

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Physical description

4 series

Administrative / biographical background
Industrial and Provident Societies

Incorporation within the Registry of Friendly Societies as an industrial and provident society is obtained by registration with the registrar under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965, a consolidation of Acts from 1893. By the 1990s, there were about 8600 such societies on the register. Over a third of these were social and workingmen's clubs, with some 3000 being housing societies, and the remainder consisting mainly of wholesale and productive, retail trading, agricultural, fishing and horticultural cooperatives.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1188/

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Records relating to the Regulation of Industrial and Provident Societies