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Lord Chancellor's Department: Public Records Administration and Policy: Registered...
Catalogue reference: LCO 67
What's it about?
LCO 67
Correspondence and papers relating to public record policy and administration. Subjects covered include: departmental relations with the Public Record Office, including the move of the Public Record Office from Chancery Lane to Kew; departmental...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- LCO 67
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Title (The name of the record)
- Lord Chancellor's Department: Public Records Administration and Policy: Registered Files (PR series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1967-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence and papers relating to public record policy and administration.
Subjects covered include: departmental relations with the Public Record Office, including the move of the Public Record Office from Chancery Lane to Kew; departmental consideration and implementation of the Wilson Committee on Public Records 1981.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PR file series
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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)
- Lord Chancellor's Department, 1972-2003
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 96 file(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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From 2012 Ministry of Justice
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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
- Archives and libraries
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Department for Constitutional Affairs; Ministry of Justice.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18773/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: LCO
Records of the Lord Chancellor's Office and of various legal commissions and committees
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Lord Chancellor's Department: Public Records Administration and Policy: Registered Files (PR series)
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