Catalogue description Board of Trade and successors: Standards Department and successors: Annual Reports of Local Authorities

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Reference: BT 184
Title: Board of Trade and successors: Standards Department and successors: Annual Reports of Local Authorities
Description:

These reports are selected from those submitted to the Board of Trade and its successors in 1952 and from 1957 onwards.

Reports are required under weights and measures regulations which the Board of Trade and its successors are empowered to make under the Weights and Measures Acts of 1904, 1963, 1979 and 1985. Each local weights and measures authority is required to report on its functions annually to the Secretary of State. The records contain statistical reports of the numbers of weighing and measuring instruments examined, numbers of premises visited, equipment submitted for tests, inspections and testing of trade equipment, staff, fees and salaries.
Date: 1952-1975
Arrangement:

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

Board of Trade, Standard Weights and Measures Department, 1957-1966

Board of Trade, Standards Department, 1922-1957

Department of Prices and Consumer Protection, Standards, Weights and Measures Division, 1974-1976

Department of Trade and Industry, Standards, Weights and Measures Division, 1970-1974
Physical description: 164 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Selection and destruction information: All reports prior to 1952, and those between 1953 and 1957, have been destroyed. Some reports voluntarily submitted by authorities abroad are included. Following a re-appraisal of this series in 2005 records will no longer be selected.
Administrative / biographical background:

Inspectors of Weights and Measures have been appointed by local authorities under the Weights and Measures Act of 1878 and subsequent Acts.

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