Series
Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 320
What's it about?
HO 320
Files from the Home Office BGL (Betting, Gaming and Lotteries) series. The Home Office has general responsibility for the regulation of betting, gaming and lotteries, exercised mainly through local authorities, the police, and boards. Many of the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- HO 320
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1944-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the Home Office BGL (Betting, Gaming and Lotteries) series. The Home Office has general responsibility for the regulation of betting, gaming and lotteries, exercised mainly through local authorities, the police, and boards. Many of the responsibilities were generated by the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gaming. The files in this series deal mainly with the preparation of legislation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The papers in this series are arranged by departmental file number. The inclusion of a date before or after a file number (as in 1/23/1(1963)) indicates the year in which the file is supposed to have been created, but often it only indicates the year in which the first subfile was raised on a particular subject.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records of the Aglionby Inquiry into the Horserace Totalisator Board in HO 270
Records of the Royal Commission on Betting, Lotteries and Gaming are in HO 335
Records of the Royal Commission on Gambling are in BS 3
Annual reports of the Gaming Board for Great Britain are in HO 224
Records of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and predecessors on Lotteries are in PF 305
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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)
- BGL Symbol 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 Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, 2017-2017
- Home Office, 1782-1782
- Home Office, General Department, 1953-1986
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 516 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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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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 Gaming Board for Great Britain closed and was replaced by the Gambling Commission in 2007.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9184/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: HO
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Home Office: Betting, Gaming and Lotteries (BGL Symbol Series) Files