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Ministry of Health and successors: Superannuation and Compensation, Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: HLG 33
What's it about?
HLG 33
Policy files of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and successor departments dealing with superannuation schemes established under the Poor Law Officers Superannuation Act 1896, the Local Government and Other...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HLG 33
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Health and successors: Superannuation and Compensation, Registered Files (91451-91459 Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1924-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Policy files of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and successor departments dealing with superannuation schemes established under the Poor Law Officers Superannuation Act 1896, the Local Government and Other Officers Superannuation Act 1922 and subsequent legislation. The series also includes files concerning staff compensation questions arising from loss of office.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
In file number order under the heads under which they were registered.
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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)
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91451-91459 file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Health, 1919-1968
- Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970
- Ministry of Local Government and Planning, 1951-1951
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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153 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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
- Poverty
- Local Government
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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 Poor Law Officers' Superannuation Act 1896 first gave statutory powers for the setting up of schemes in Poor Law Unions. Some local authorities had previously set up superannuation schemes under local act powers. The Local Government and Other Officers' Superannuation Act 1922 enabled local authorities and combinations of local authorities to adopt the Act subject to the Minister's approval in order to establish superannuation schemes.
Since then legislation has been amended and modified under various subsequent Acts including:-
The Widow's Orphan's and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act 1925
The Rating and Valuation Act 1925
The Local Government Act 1929
The Local Government Superannuation Acts 1937 and 1939
The Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948
The Local Government Superannuation Act 1953
The Local Government Act 1958
The Pensions (Increase) Act 1959
The National Insurance Act 1959
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8728/
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