Catalogue description Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Secretary of Commissions: Appointments of Justices of the Peace

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Reference: LCO 34
Title: Lord Chancellor's Office and Lord Chancellor's Department: Secretary of Commissions: Appointments of Justices of the Peace
Description:

This series contains Lord Chancellor's Office files on appointments of justices of the peace, general commissioners of income tax and Lord Chancellor's advisory committees for justices of the peace. They relate to cities, counties, boroughs and districts in England and Wales with the exception of advisory committees in the Duchy of Lancaster.
Date: 1929-1986
Related material:

Fiats in respect of appointments on Justices of the Peace will be found in C 234
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Lord Chancellor's Department, Secretary of Commissions Division, 1972-1983

Lord Chancellor's Office, Secretary of Commissions Division, 1968-1972

Lord Chancellor's Office, Secretary of Commissions of the Peace, 1875-1967
Physical description: 101 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 50 year closure
Selection and destruction information: The Records Management Department Records Review Panel of 18 July 2005 reviewed the future selection of these records. It was decided that that future accessions of justice of the peace appointment related records into LCO 34 be terminated.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Secretary of Commissions was responsible within the Lord Chancellor's Department for appointments of Justices of the Peace, General Commissioners of Income Tax and Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committees for Justices of the Peace (except in the Duchy of Lancaster) in England and Wales.

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