Catalogue description General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Registration Division: Registration Officers' Handbooks
Reference: | RG 64 |
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Title: | General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Registration Division: Registration Officers' Handbooks |
Description: |
This series contains registration officers' handbooks of instructions issued for their guidance. The Handbook is divided into several sections:
The handbook was first issued in 1927 but a copy has not survived. The first handbook in this series is dated 1954 and thereafter there appears to be a copy of each revision, which was usually brought about by the introduction of new and revised regulations. |
Date: | 1954-1988 |
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: | 5 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Registrar and his staff are appointed by the local registration authority and are deemed to be employees of that 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 and the registration officers' handbook contains a series of instructions issued for the guidance of registration officers. |
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