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Series
Customs and Excise: Secretaries' Office: Instructions to Staff Relating To Purchase...
Catalogue reference: CUST 138
What's it about?
CUST 138
This series contain operational orders issued by the Secretaries' Office to Customs and Excise staff, mainly about changes in liability of articles to purchase tax, and are bound in red or black volumes. The Purchase Tax Orders (PTOs) were mostly...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CUST 138
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Title (The name of the record)
- Customs and Excise: Secretaries' Office: Instructions to Staff Relating To Purchase Tax Orders
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contain operational orders issued by the Secretaries' Office to Customs and Excise staff, mainly about changes in liability of articles to purchase tax, and are bound in red or black volumes.
The Purchase Tax Orders (PTOs) were mostly for departmental use only, and were not intended for publication (although there are several published statutory instruments included within the volumes). Those PTOs that were superseded have been"struck through" (with a written reference to the superseding PTO) or a reference was written on the back of the page.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The purchase tax orders are arranged and bound in the order that each was printed.
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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)
- Board of Customs and Excise, Secretaries' Office, 1909-1909
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 17 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Board of Customs and Excise
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Some books are bound in red leather which is crumbling.
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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
- Taxation
- Official publications
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Series ran 1947-1966
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All records selected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15202/
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