Catalogue description Poor Law Commission and successors: Legal Department and successors: Orders

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Reference: HLG 26
Title: Poor Law Commission and successors: Legal Department and successors: Orders
Description:

Orders of the Poor Law Commission and Board, and Local Government Board, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Local Government and Planning, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and the Department of the Environment relating to various aspects of local administration. These include the regulation of schools, asylums, district auditors, and of the duties and powers of poor law unions and local authorities generally.

Date: 1842-1978
Related material:

There are additional miscellaneous sealed plans in HLG 111

Sealed plans relating to sealed orders are to be found in HLG 23

Registers and indexes to orders issued up to 1952 are in HLG 66

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

Department of the Environment, 1970-1997

Local Government Board, 1871-1919

Ministry of Housing and Local Government, 1951-1970

Physical description: 1138 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open

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