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Series
Charity Commission Secretariat: Registered Files (Plain Number Series)
Catalogue reference: CHAR 3
What's it about?
CHAR 3
Selected files relating to the administration of the Charity Commission and to policy and legislation affecting charities. The series was closed following the enactment of the 1960 Charities Act, and subsequent papers were filed in a new General...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CHAR 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Charity Commission Secretariat: Registered Files (Plain Number Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1853-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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Selected files relating to the administration of the Charity Commission and to policy and legislation affecting charities.
The series was closed following the enactment of the 1960 Charities Act, and subsequent papers were filed in a new General Division series - CHAR 11
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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)
- Plain numbers randomly assigned
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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)
- Charity Commission, 1853-1853
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 187 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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
- Charities
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- The file series within the Commission closed in 1960, and there will be no further accruals from it.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Files selected by review within the Commission
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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 appointment of a Secretary was provided for by section 1 of the 1853 Act.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4059/
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Charity Commission Secretariat: Registered Files (Plain Number Series)
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