Catalogue description Privy Council Office: Burials Files (Numerical Series)

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Reference: PC 19
Title: Privy Council Office: Burials Files (Numerical Series)
Description:

Records in this series show the development of policy in the Privy Council Office on the discontinuation of use of burial grounds.
Date: 1985
Related material:

Recommendations for discontinuation of use of burial grounds can originate from Secretaries of State for the Environment, for Wales and for Health, and the records of their departments will contain related records on closure of burial grounds.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Privy Council Office, 1556-
Physical description: file(s)
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Privy Council Office
Accumulation dates: Series began in 1853
Selection and destruction information: Selected under Acquisition Policy criteria 2.2.2.1 and 2.2.2.2, documenting the control of burial ground closures by the Privy Council Office under the Burials Act 1853. Policy files retained,routine case files destroyed.
Accruals: Occasional accruals can be expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

Under section 1 of the Burials Act 1853, certain Secretaries of State can represent to the Monarch in Council that the use of certain burial grounds, or the continuation of burials in any city, town or other area, should be discontinued. The Monarch can then order such discontinuations by means of an Order in Council.

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