Series
Office of the Parliamentary Counsel: Parliamentary Bills and Memoranda: Volumes
Catalogue reference: AM 3
What's it about?
AM 3
This series contains Parliamentary Bills and Memoranda including, where appropriate, drafting notes, significant correspondence relating to the preparation of the legislation, opinions and memoranda, and related correspondence. These...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AM 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Office of the Parliamentary Counsel: Parliamentary Bills and Memoranda: Volumes
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1855-1898
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains Parliamentary Bills and Memoranda including, where appropriate, drafting notes, significant correspondence relating to the preparation of the legislation, opinions and memoranda, and related correspondence.
These leather-bound volumes contain the printed Bills together with some weeded documentation and reflect the translation of policy into legislation. They give a valuable historical insight into the process at the highest level. Individual sponsoring government departments when considering further legislation often need to consult the original Office of the Parliamentary Counsel records when they have not retained or transferred their own records on legislation that they sponsored.
Some very early records pre-date the establishment of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel in 1869 and are a unique record of the Victorian parliamentary legislative process.
Most pieces contain an index.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury, 1869-1969
- Parliamentary Counsel, 1769-1841
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 51 volume(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- Volumes vary in size
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2014 Cabinet Office, Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- The bound volumes are in a condition commensurate with their age
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- OPC has retained all these records since inception (see Lord Chancellor's Instrument No.76)
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are expected.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13374015/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: AM
Records of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
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Office of the Parliamentary Counsel: Parliamentary Bills and Memoranda: Volumes