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Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations: Transfers of Engagements and...

Catalogue reference: NF 8

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These files contain formal documents recording the merger of two trade unions or employers associations to form a new organisation. A merger can take place through the transfer of engagements (eg membership, property) from one trade union or...

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NF 8

Title
Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations: Transfers of Engagements and Amalgamations Files
Date

1970-1976

Description

These files contain formal documents recording the merger of two trade unions or employers associations to form a new organisation. A merger can take place through the transfer of engagements (eg membership, property) from one trade union or employers association to another or through an amalgamation. The Trade Union (Amalgamations, etc) Act 1964 and the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 require that certain statutory documents are submitted to the Certification Officer for approval. These files contain: notices, instruments, applications for the registration of instruments (records the members' votes) and statutory declarations of amalgamations/transfers of engagements.

Arrangement
Related material

Successor files created by the Certification Office are in CL 4

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations, 1971-1974
Physical description

24 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

in 2009 Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers Associations

Subjects
Topics
Labour
Custodial history

Records created by the Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations and inherited by the Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers Associations.

Accruals

No further accruals expected.

Selection and destruction information

Selected under Acquisition Policy Theme 3.2.1 Economic, social and demographic condition of the UK as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16630/

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