Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division II and successors: Registered Files, Animal Welfare (AJ Series)

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Reference: MAF 369
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Animal Health Division II and successors: Registered Files, Animal Welfare (AJ Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food animal welfare branch and divisions from 1963 dealing with the welfare of all farm animal species on the farm, in transit to slaughterhouses or for export, and at slaughtering.

It includes many files dealing with the repercussions of the work of the Technical Committee to Enquire into the Welfare of Animals Kept Under Intensive Livestock Husbandry Systems (Brambell Committee). Other subjects of the series are the Slaughter of Poultry Act 1967; the European Convention for the protection of animals during international transport; the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 Part 1 (welfare of livestock); the work of the Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (FAWAC); and the Ponies Act 1969.

Many early files have pre-1965 papers re-registered from the TAY series ( MAF 287)
Date: 1963-2005
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: AJ file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Health Division II, 1965-1987

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Welfare and Protection Division, 1989-1992

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Animal Welfare Division, 1992-2001
Physical description: 451 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1997 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Accumulation dates: 1965 onwards
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Technical Committee to Enquire into the Welfare of Animals Kept Under Intensive Livestock Husbandry Systems (Brambell Committee) was appointed by ministers to examine the conditions in which livestock was kept under systems of intensive husbandry and to advise whether standards should be set to safeguard its welfare interests and if so, what they should be. Its report was published in 1965 as Cmnd 2836.

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