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DCC - Derbyshire County Council - [18th cent]-2025
- CL - Communities, Culture and Heritage - 1875-21st cent
  - 2 - Derbyshire Record Office - 1906-2014
    - 2 - Management - 1962-2011
      - 2 - Policy - 1961-c2011

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	DCC/CL/2/2/2/4
Title	Research file relating to the Public Records (Amendment) Bill of 1982/1983, which proposed transferring registers of births, deaths and marriages to the Public Record Office (later National Archives) after 100 years.
Date	1980s
Description	Including: a copy of the Public Records (Amendment) Bill with the full title "An Act to provide for the transfer of certain records in the custody of the Registrar General to the Public Record Office" 1982; discussion paper "The vital registers and research" dated Oct 1982; summary reports by Pro Rad Reporting on the House of Lords debate during the second reading of the bill 28 Jan 1983; extracts from Hansard; letter dated 31 Mar 1983 to the editor of the Times from historian Christopher Charlton challenging the 100-year rule as an anomaly for records to which the public has a statutory right of access and objecting to proposed charges.
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Derbyshire County Council
Format	Document

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