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Series
Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations: Files on Individual Organisations
Catalogue reference: NF 2
What's it about?
NF 2
This series contains the files recording the dealings of the Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations (RTUEA) with individual trade unions and employers associations. The main contents are: registration issues, including cancellation...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- NF 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations: Files on Individual Organisations
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1971-1975
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the files recording the dealings of the Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations (RTUEA) with individual trade unions and employers associations. The main contents are: registration issues, including cancellation of registration; the organisation's rules, and RTUEA examination of the rules; annual returns and political fund returns; and occasionally superannuation schemes.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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By the organisation's official number. Frequently there are 2, 3 or more files about an organisation.
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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)
- 1984 file(s)
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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 2001-2009 Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers Associations
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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
- Labour
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No future accruals are expected
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All surviving files have been preserved
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15388/
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