Catalogue description General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Registration Division: Inspectorate Reports on Registration Officers

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Reference: RG 61
Title: General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Registration Division: Inspectorate Reports on Registration Officers
Description:

This series contains a selection, on a geographical basis, of the Inspectors' reports on registrars and superintendents' assistants. They give details of performance, attitudes, other employment, accounts, examination of registers and the strongrooms, hours of attendance, training needs and general comments. The areas from which a selection has been taken are: Axbridge, Basingstoke, Burton-upon-Trent, Chelsea, Chepstow, Coventry, Falmouth, Leeds, Lewisham, Morpeth, Norwich, Nottingham, Oswestry, Rugby and Weston-Super-Mare.
Date: 1832-1976
Arrangement:

The reports are arranged alphabetically by area, and chronologically within area.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

General Register Office, Registration Division, 1836-1970

Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Registration Division, 1970-1996
Physical description: 37 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

The Registration Division is responsible for the administration of the marriage and registration service. Its functions are to correct errors in completed entries of births, deaths and marriages, re-registration, overseas registration, revision of the handbook, preparation of GRO circulars, registration of adoptions, certificate production, appointment of registration officers, schemes for local organisation of registration service, collection and analysis of statistics, examination of work of local registration officers, general administration of Marriage Acts, and general administration of laws on births, deaths and still-births.

Registration officers (registrars) are independent statutory officers appointed and paid by local authorities but have no legal employer. For certain purposes (e.g. superannuation), registrars are deemed to be employees of their local authority. The registrar's functions however are laid down in Acts of Parliament and regulations made under these acts. In exercising these functions he is subject to such instructions and directions as the Registrar General may give.

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