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Home Office: Home Safety (HSY Symbol Series) Files
Catalogue reference: HO 381
What's it about?
HO 381
Files from the HSY series which was used successively by the Home Office and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection. The topics covered include home safety standards, electric and oil heating, the dangerous use of plastic material,...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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HO 381
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Title (The name of the record)
- Home Office: Home Safety (HSY Symbol Series) Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1961-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files from the HSY series which was used successively by the Home Office and the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection. The topics covered include home safety standards, electric and oil heating, the dangerous use of plastic material, regulations concerning the sale, manufacture and import of dangerous toys, the use of inflammable materials and water safety.
The files were used by the E Division (E4) of the Home Office.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former reference order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other Home Office files on consumer safety are in: BT 223 JF 1
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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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HSY Symbol 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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54 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1995 Department of Trade and Industry
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Transferred from the Home Office to the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection in 1974.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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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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From 1 October 1974, the Home Office transferred to the Department of Prices and Consumer Protection some of its responsibilities. These involved home safety and safety of consumer goods (including the making of regulations under the Consumer Protection Act 1961); fire hazards in consumer goods and safety matters relating to the sale of fireworks.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9245/
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