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General Register Office Circulars: Various subjects Decrees of nullity or divorce...
Catalogue reference: RG 41/68
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This record is about the General Register Office Circulars: Various subjects Decrees of nullity or divorce... dating from 1973 in the series General Register Office: Circulars. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- RG 41/68
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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General Register Office Circulars:
- Various subjects Decrees of nullity or divorce granted by courts in England and Wales Leaflets on marriage in England and Wales: translations in certain Asian languages Photographic copies of entries for legal proceedings National Health Service: five-letter birth codes Change of telephone number for Titchfield and transfer of Registration Accounts Section Deaths of dentists GRO Circulars issued in 1972 Amendments to Handbook for Registration Officers (Former reference: GRO No 1).
- Adoption Act 1968 (Former reference: GRO No 2).
- Report of the Law Commission on Solemnisation of Marriage in England and Wales (Former reference: GRO No 3).
- Various subjects Matrimonial Proceedings(Polygamous Marriages) Act 1972 Transfer of birth index searching to Southport Deaths of pensioners Counterfoils of short birth certificates Use of rubber stamps Church or other building in which the marriageis to be solemnised National Insurance Income tax leaflet Amendments to Handbook for Registration Officers (Former reference: GRO No 4).
- Appointment of Deputy Registrar General (Former reference: GRO No 5).
- Removal of sections of General Register Office to St Catherine's House (Former reference: GRO No 6).
- Re-introduction of hard-bound registers of births and deaths (Former reference: GRO No 7).
- Registration service in local government re-organisation (Former reference: GRO No 8).
- Weekly returns of births and deaths (Former reference: GRO No 9).
- Conserving fuel (Former reference: GRO No 10).
- Heating and lighting of registration service offices (Former reference: GRO No 11).
- The registration service in local government re-organisation (Former reference: GRO No 12).
- National Health Service five-letter birth codes.
- Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1972: vital statistics (Former reference: GRO MOH No 3).
- GRO MOH No 1, 2: missing at transfer.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3543025/
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RG 41
General Register Office: Circulars
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