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Department of the Environment: Directorate of Construction Industries, Building Regulations...
Catalogue reference: AT 49
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AT 49
This series consists of registered files of the Building Regulations Administrative Division.The files deal with legislation and regulations in the field of building regulation and control, including fire prevention, proposed new building control...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- AT 49
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of the Environment: Directorate of Construction Industries, Building Regulations Administrative Division: Registered Files (BRA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1961-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registered files of the Building Regulations Administrative Division.
The files deal with legislation and regulations in the field of building regulation and control, including fire prevention, proposed new building control legislation on accidents resulting from demolition of buildings; ventilation and design of buildings and appliances, and the design of public conveniences for disabled. The role of the Agrément Board in building regulations is also included.
The series includes some earlier files which were re-registered into the BRA series files from the H8 series: HLG 118
Includes files re-registered from RB file series in WORK 75
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files in this series have been transferred in more than one batch. They are arranged in previous reference order within each accession.
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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)
- BRA 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)
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- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-2001
- Department of the Environment, 1970-1997
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997-2001
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 228 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 1996 Department of the Environment
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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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1973 onwards
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Routine casework files have been destroyed.
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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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The Public Health Act 1961 introduced national building regulations and responsibility for these passed to the Ministry of Public Building and Works in 1964. In 1966 responsibility transferred to Housing Division H8 in the Ministry of Housing and Local Government; and then in 1973 to the Building Regulations Administrative Division, within the Department of the Environment.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2567/
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