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Series
Charity Commission: Enrolments under Various Acts 1926-1963
Catalogue reference: CHAR 13
What's it about?
CHAR 13
This series consists of voluntary and mortmain enrolments under various Acts including the Settled Land Act 1925. There are also indexes to the enrolments.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 13
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission: Enrolments under Various Acts 1926-1963
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1926-1963
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of voluntary and mortmain enrolments under various Acts including the Settled Land Act 1925. There are also indexes to the enrolments.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 492 microform and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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
- Charities
- Conveyancing
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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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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Section 29 of the Settled Land Act 1925 provided that all land vested or to be vested on or for charitable, ecclesiastical or public trusts or purposes was deemed to be settled land and that the trustees had all the powers of a tenant for life conferred by the Act in reference to the land.
Section 29(4) of the 1925 Act provided for the new procedures of enrolment previously provided by sections 6 and 9 of the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888.
Following the recommendation of the Nathan Committee the law of mortmain was repealed by the Charities Act 1960.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15100/
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Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: CHAR
Records of the Charity Commissioners and Charity Commission
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Charity Commission: Enrolments under Various Acts 1926-1963
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