SCHEDULES

C4FIRST SCHEDULE Definition of Public Records

Annotations:
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Sch. 1 excluded by Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), s. 144(9)

Sch. 1 excluded (E.W.S.) (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, s. 125(6); S.I. 1994/571, art. 5 (with art. 7) (which exclusion was repealed (18.7.1996) by 1996 c. 42, s. 8(2)(3))

Sch. 1 excluded (E.W.S.) (18.9.1996) by 1996 c. 42, ss. 5(3), 8(3)

Departmental records

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1

Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (1) of the last foregoing paragraph, the administrative and departmental records of bodies and establishments set out in the Table at the end of this paragraph shall be public records, whether or not they are records belonging to Her Majesty.

2

The provisions of this paragraph shall not be taken as applying to records in any museum or gallery mentioned in the said Table which form part of its permanent collections (that is to say records which the museum or gallery has acquired otherwise than by transfer from or arrangements with a government department).

TABLE

C1PART I

BODIES AND ESTABLISHMENTS UNDER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

Responsible Government Department

F1Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Agricultural Wages Board.

Agricultural Wages Committees.

Organisation known as the “National Farm Survey”.

Official seed testing station for England and Wales.

F2Ministry of Defence

Meteorological Office.

F3. . .

F4. . .

F5Department of Health

National Health Service Authorities F6including F7Primary Care TrustsF8, National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts other than local health authorities F9and Authorities for districts or localities in Wales, or for areas in or consisting of Wales (including National Health Service trusts all of whose hospitals, establishments and facilities are situated in Wales).

F10Family Practitioner CommitteesF11for localities in England

F12health service hospitals, within the meaning of the National Health Service Act 1977F13, in England except—

records of endowments passing to Boards of Governors under section seven of the National Health Service Act 1946.

records relating to funds held by Hospital Boards and Committees under sections fifty-nine and sixty of the said Act, andrecords of private patients admitted under section five of the said Act.

F14 records of property passing to F15 Regional, Area or District Health Authorities or special health authorities under sections 23 to 26 of the M1 National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 F16 , section 92 of the National Health Service Act 1977, section 213 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or section 161 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006

records of property held by a F17Regional,Area or District Health Authority or special health authority under section 21 or 22 of the said Act 1973F18, section 90 or 91 of the National Health Service Act 1977, section 218 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 to that Act, or paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006

F19records of trust property passing to a F20Strategic Health Authority, Health Authority, Special Health Authority or Primary Care Trust by virtue of the Health Authorities Act 1995 F21, under section 213 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or section 161 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, or held by F22a Strategic Health Authority or a Health Authority under section 90 or 91 of F23the National Health Service Act 1977, section 218 of the National Health Service Act 2006, paragraph 12 of Schedule 2 to, or paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 to, that Act, or paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006.

F24. . .

Home Office

Office of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

Office of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.

F25Department of Employment

National Dock Labour Board.

National Institute of Houseworkers Limited.

Wages Boards and Wages Councils.

F26Department of Social Security

National Insurance Advisory Committee.

Industrial Injuries Advisory Council.

F27Attendance Allowance Board.

National Insurance and Industrial Injuries Joint Authorities.

Workmen’s Compensation Supplementation Board.

Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board.

F28. . .

F29. . .

F30Department of Transport

Air Transport Advisory Council.

Air Registration Board.

F31Airworthiness Requirements Board, Civil Aviation Authority.

F32Strategic Rail Authority.

F33Ministry of Justice

F34Legal Aid Board

F35Legal Services Commission

C2PART II

OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS AND ORGANISATIONS

  • F36...

  • Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board.

  • F37Armouries

  • F38Arts and Humanities Research Council.

  • F39The Big Lottery Fund.

  • F40The Board of the Pension Protection Fund.

  • F41The Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.

  • F42British Coal Corporation

  • F43British Council.

  • British Museum (including the Natural History Museum).

  • F44Care Council for Wales.

  • F45the Care Quality Commission.

  • Catering Wages Commission.

  • F46Central Police Training and Development Authority

  • F47Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.

  • F48Civil Nuclear Police Authority.

  • F49Coal Authority

  • Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.

  • F50Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

  • F51The Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

  • F52...

  • F53...

  • F54Commission on Industrial Relations

  • F55Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health.

  • F56Commission for Rural Communities.

  • F57...

  • F58The Committee on Climate Change.

  • F59Competition Commission.

  • F60Competition Service

  • F61...

  • F62Consumer Council for Water.

  • F63Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

  • F64...

  • F65Criminal Cases Review Commission

  • F66Crown Agents for Overseas Governments and Administrations (before and after their reconstitution as a body corporate) except when acting for governments or authorities outside Her Majesty’s dominions.

  • F67Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board.

  • C3F68...

  • F69...

  • F70A development agency established under section 1 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.

  • Development Commission.

  • F71Director of Fair Access to Higher Education

  • F72...

  • F73Economic and Social Research Council.

  • F74Electoral Commission.

  • F75. . .

  • F76Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

  • F77...

  • F78The Environment Agency

  • C3F79 Funding Agency for Schools

  • F80 Further Education Funding Council for England.

  • F81...

  • F150Gangmasters Licensing Authority

  • F61...

  • F82General Social Care Council.

  • F83General Teaching Council for England.

  • F84General Teaching Council for Wales.

  • F80Higher Education Funding Council for England.

  • F85...

  • F86Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

  • F87The Homes and Communities Agency.

  • F88Human Tissue Authority.

  • Imperial War Museum.

  • F89The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

  • F90Information Commissioner.

  • F91Infrastructure Planning Commission.

  • Irish Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Land Trust.

  • F92Learning and Skills Council for England.

  • F93The Legal Services Board.

  • F94The Legal Services Consultative Panel.

  • F95 The Legal Services Ombudsman

  • F96Local Better Regulation Office.

  • London Museum.

  • F97The Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct

  • F98. . .

  • F149The Marine Management Organisation.

  • F99Medical Research Council.

  • F100...

  • F101F102Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

  • F103National Audit Office

  • F52...

  • F104. . .

  • F105The National Consumer Council.

  • National Gallery.

  • F100...

  • F106National Lottery Commission.

  • National Maritime Museum.

  • F77...

  • F107National Policing Improvement Agency.

  • National Portrait Gallery.

  • National Savings Committee.

  • F108Natural England.

  • F109Natural Environment Research Council.

  • F110...

  • F100...

  • F111Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

  • F112Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority.

  • F113Office of Communications.

  • F114...

  • F115Office of Fair Trading.

  • F116The Office for Legal Complaints.

  • F117Office for Tenants and Social Landlords.

  • F118Olympic Delivery Authority.

  • F119Olympic Lottery Distributor.

  • F120The Ombudsman for the Board of the Pension Protection Fund.

  • F121Pensions Compensation Board.

  • F122Pensions Ombudsman.

  • F123The Pensions Regulator.

  • F124Personal Accounts Delivery Authority

  • F125Police Information Technology Organisation

  • F126Post Office.

  • F127Post Office company (within the meaning of Part IV of the Postal Services Act 2000).

  • F128Qualifications and Curriculum Authority

  • F129...

  • F130Rail Passengers’ Committees.

  • F131Rail Passengers’ Council.

  • Remploy Limited.

  • F132Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  • Royal Greenwich Observatory.

  • C3F133 School Curriculum and Assessment Authority

  • C3F134...

  • F135Science Museum

  • F136Security Industry Authority.

  • F137Serious Organised Crime Agency.

  • F138...

  • F139...

  • F140The Simpler Trade Procedures Board.

  • Tate Gallery.

  • F141...

  • F142Technology Strategy Board.

  • F143Traffic Director for London

  • F144Training and Development Agency for Schools

  • F145. . .

  • Trustee Savings Banks Inspection Committee.

  • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

  • University Grants Committee.

  • F146Valuation Tribunal Service.

  • F147Victoria and Albert Museum

  • Wallace Collection.

  • War Works Commission.

  • Any body established for the purpose of determining the boundaries of constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, or of local authorities in England F148....