Catalogue description Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations: Transfers of Engagements and Amalgamations Files

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Title: Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations: Transfers of Engagements and Amalgamations Files
Description:

These files contain formal documents recording the merger of two trade unions or employers associations to form a new organisation. A merger can take place through the transfer of engagements (eg membership, property) from one trade union or employers association to another or through an amalgamation. The Trade Union (Amalgamations, etc) Act 1964 and the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 require that certain statutory documents are submitted to the Certification Officer for approval. These files contain: notices, instruments, applications for the registration of instruments (records the members' votes) and statutory declarations of amalgamations/transfers of engagements.

Date: 1970-1976
Arrangement:
Related material:

Successor files created by the Certification Office are in CL 4

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations, 1971-1974

Physical description: 24 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2009 Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers Associations

Custodial history: Records created by the Registry of Trade Unions and Employers Associations and inherited by the Certification Office for Trade Unions and Employers Associations.
Selection and destruction information: Selected under Acquisition Policy Theme 3.2.1 Economic, social and demographic condition of the UK as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries
Accruals: No further accruals expected.

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