Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Under the Public Records Act 1958 it is responsible for overseeing the appropriate custody of certain non-governmental public records in England and Wales. [16] Under the 2003 Historical Manuscripts Commission Warrant it has responsibility for investigating and reporting on non-governmental records and archives of all kinds throughout the ...
The Public Records Act 1958 was the foundational legislation in the UK that governed the preservation and access to public records. It was this act that established the principle of transferring records from public offices to The National Archives, and other places of deposit, after 30 years unless they were selected for earlier destruction.
Freedom of information laws allow access by the general public to data held by national governments and, where applicable, by state and local governments. The emergence of freedom of information legislation was a response to increasing dissatisfaction with the secrecy surrounding government policy development and decision making. [1]
Free UK Genealogy is a supporter of Open Data [11] [12] and Open Source as key to making and keeping public records accessible to all. In 2011, FreeBMD partnered with the Open Rights Group and Open Knowledge Foundation to launch the Open Genealogy Alliance (OGA).
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [22] [23]
The Public Records Act 1967 [1] (c. 44) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during Harold Wilson's Labour government.. The Act amended the Public Records Act 1958 by reducing the period whereby public records (apart from those deemed "sensitive" by the Lord Chancellor) were closed to the public from fifty years to thirty years, the "thirty-year rule".
When we want new music, there's a strong temptation to get it for free through file sharing, ripping it from our friends, or downloading it illegally. So perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that four ...
There were two elements to the rule: the first required that records be transferred from government departments to the Public Record Office (now The National Archives) after thirty years unless specific exemptions were given (by the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on Public Records); the second that they would be opened to public access at ...