SCHEDULES
Section 10.
FIRST SCHEDULEU.K. Definition of Public Records
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
1U.K.The provisions of this Schedule shall have effect for determining what are public records for the purposes of this Act.
Departmental recordsU.K.
2(1)Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, administrative and departmental records belonging to Her Majesty, whether in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, in right of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and, in particular,—U.K.
(a)records of, or held in, any department of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, or
(b)records of any office, commission or other body or establishment whatsoever under Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom,
shall be public records.
(2)Sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall not apply—
(a)to records of any government department or body which is wholly or mainly concerned with Scottish affairs, or which carries on its activities wholly or mainly in Scotland, or
(b)to registers or certified copies of entries in registers being registers or certified copies kept or deposited in the General Register Office under or in pursuance of any enactment, whether past or future, which provides for the registration of births, deaths, marriages [, civil partnerships] or adoptions, or
(c)except so far as provided by paragraph 4 of this Schedule, to records of the Duchy of Lancaster, or
(d)to records of the office of the Public Trustee relating to individual trusts [or
(e)to Welsh public records (as defined in [the Government of Wales Act 2006]).]
3(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.U.K.
(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
PART I |
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BODIES AND ESTABLISHMENTS UNDER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS |
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Responsible Government Department |
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[Department 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.
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[Ministry of Defence] | Meteorological Office. |
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[Department of Health] | National Health Service Authorities [including [Primary Care Trusts][, National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts]] other than local health authorities [and 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)].
[Family Practitioner Committees][for localities in England]
[health service hospitals, within the meaning of the National Health Service Act 1977][, 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.
[ records of property passing to [ Regional, Area or District ] Health Authorities or special health authorities under sections 23 to 26 of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 [ , 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 [Regional,Area or District] Health Authority or special health authority under section 21 or 22 of the said Act 1973][, 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]
[records of trust property passing to a [Strategic Health Authority, Health Authority, Special Health Authority or Primary Care Trust] by virtue of the Health Authorities Act 1995 [, under section 213 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or section 161 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006,] or held by [a Strategic Health Authority or] a Health Authority under section 90 or 91 of [the 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].]
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Home Office | Office of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
Office of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.
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[Department of Employment] | National Dock Labour Board.
National Institute of Houseworkers Limited.
Wages Boards and Wages Councils.
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[Department of Social Security] | National Insurance Advisory Committee.
Industrial Injuries Advisory Council.
[Attendance Allowance Board.]
National Insurance and Industrial Injuries Joint Authorities.
Workmen’s Compensation Supplementation Board.
Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board.
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[Department of Transport] | Air Transport Advisory Council.
Air Registration Board.
[Airworthiness Requirements Board, Civil Aviation Authority.]
[Strategic Rail Authority.]
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[Ministry of Justice] | [Legal Aid Board]
[Legal Services Commission]
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PART II
OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS AND ORGANISATIONS
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Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board.
[Armouries]
[Arts and Humanities Research Council.]
[The Big Lottery Fund.]
[The Board of the Pension Protection Fund.]
[The Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.]
[British Coal Corporation]
[British Council.]
British Museum (including the Natural History Museum).
[Care Council for Wales.]
[The Care Quality Commission.]
Catering Wages Commission.
[Central Police Training and Development Authority]
[Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.]
[The Child Poverty Commission.]
[Civil Nuclear Police Authority.]
[Coal Authority]
Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.
[Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.]
[The Commission for Equality and Human Rights.]
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[Commission on Industrial Relations]
[Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health.]
[Commission for Rural Communities.]
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[The Committee on Climate Change.]
[Competition Commission.]
[Competition Service]
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[Consumer Council for Water.]
[Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence]
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[Criminal Cases Review Commission]
[Crown 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.
[Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board.]
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[A development agency established under section 1 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.]
Development Commission.
[Director of Fair Access to Higher Education]
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[Economic and Social Research Council.]
[Electoral Commission.]
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[Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.]
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[The Environment Agency]
[ Funding Agency for Schools ]
[ Further Education Funding Council for England.]
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[Gangmasters Licensing Authority]
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[General Social Care Council.]
[General Teaching Council for England.]
[General Teaching Council for Wales.]
[Higher Education Funding Council for England.]
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[Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England]
[The Homes and Communities Agency.]
[Human Tissue Authority.]
Imperial War Museum.
[The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.]
[Information Commissioner.]
[Infrastructure Planning Commission.]
Irish Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Land Trust.
[Learning and Skills Council for England.]
[The Legal Services Board.]
[The Legal Services Consultative Panel.]
[ The Legal Services Ombudsman]
[Local Better Regulation Office.]
London Museum.
[The Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct]
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[The Marine Management Organisation.]
[Medical Research Council.]
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[[Monopolies and Mergers Commission.]]
[National Audit Office]
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[The National Consumer Council.]
National Gallery.
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[National Lottery Commission.]
National Maritime Museum.
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[National Policing Improvement Agency.]
National Portrait Gallery.
National Savings Committee.
[Natural England.]
[Natural Environment Research Council.]
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[Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.]
[Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority.]
[Office of Communications.]
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[Office of Fair Trading.]
[The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator.]
[The Office for Legal Complaints.]
[Office for Tenants and Social Landlords.]
[Olympic Delivery Authority.]
[Olympic Lottery Distributor.]
[The Ombudsman for the Board of the Pension Protection Fund.]
[Passengers’ Council.]
[Pensions Compensation Board.]
[Pensions Ombudsman.]
[The Pensions Regulator.]
[Personal Accounts Delivery Authority]
[Police Information Technology Organisation]
[Post Office].
[Post Office company (within the meaning of Part IV of the Postal Services Act 2000).]
[Qualifications and Curriculum Authority]
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[Rail Passengers’ Committees.]
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Remploy Limited.
[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]
Royal Greenwich Observatory.
[ School Curriculum and Assessment Authority ]
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[Science Museum]
[Security Industry Authority.]
[Serious Organised Crime Agency.]
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[The Simpler Trade Procedures Board.]
Tate Gallery.
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[Technology Strategy Board.]
[Traffic Director for London]
[Training and Development Agency for Schools]
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Trustee Savings Banks Inspection Committee.
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.
University Grants Committee.
[Valuation Tribunal Service.]
[Victoria 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 ....
Textual Amendments
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Marginal Citations
[3A(1)Her Majesty may by Order in Council amend the Table at the end of paragraph 3 of this Schedule by adding to either Part of the Table an entry relating to any body or establishment—U.K.
(a)which, at the time when the Order is made, is specified in Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (departments, etc. subject to investigation), or
(b)in respect of which an entry could, at that time, be added to Schedule 2 to that Act by an Order in Council under section 4 of that Act (which confers power to amend that Schedule).
(2)An Order in Council under this paragraph may relate to a specified body or establishment or to bodies or establishments falling within a specified description.
(3)An Order in Council under this paragraph shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.]
Records of courts and tribunalsU.K.
4(1)Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, records of the following descriptions shall be public records for the purposes of this Act:—U.K.
[(za)records of the Supreme Court;]
(a)records of, or held in any department of, the Supreme Court (including any court held under a commission of assize);
(b)records of county courts and of any other superior or inferior court of record established since the passing of the County Courts Act 1846;
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(d)records of courts of quarter sessions:
(e)records of magistrates’ courts;
(f)records of coroners’ courts;
[(fa)records of the Court Martial, the Summary Appeal Court or the Service Civilian Court;]
(g)records of courts-martial held whether within or outside the United Kingdom by any of Her Majesty’s forces raised in the United Kingdom;
(h)records of naval courts held whether within or outside the United Kingdom under the enactments relating to merchant shipping;
(i)records of any court exercising jurisdiction held by Her Majesty within a country outside Her dominions;
(j)records of any tribunal (by whatever name called)—
(i)which has jurisdiction connected with any functions of a department of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom; or
(ii)which has jurisdiction in proceedings to which such a government department is a party or to hear appeals from decisions of such a government department;
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(k)records of . . . any Rent Tribunal or Local Valuation Court;
(l)records of the Industrial Court, of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal, and of the National Arbitration Tribunal (which was replaced by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal);
(m)records of umpires and deputy-umpires appointed under the National Service Act 1948, or the Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1944;
(n)records of ecclesiastical courts when exercising the testamentary and matrimonial jurisdiction removed from them by the Court of Probate Act 1857, and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857, respectively;
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(o)records of such other courts or tribunals (by whatever name called) as the Lord Chancellor may by order contained in a statutory instrument specify.
[(1A)Records of, or held in any department of, the Supreme Court within sub-paragraph (1)(a) of this paragraph include the records of the Chancery Court of the county palatine of Lancaster and the Chancery Court of the county palatine of Durham (which were abolished by the Courts Act 1971).
(1B)Records of county courts within sub-paragraph (1)(b) of this paragraph include the records of the following courts (which were abolished by the Courts Act 1971)—
(a)the Tolzey and Pie Poudre Courts of the City and County of Bristol;
(b)the Liverpool Court of Passage;
(c)the Norwich Guildhall Court; and
(d)the Court of Record for the Hundred of Salford.]
(2)This paragraph shall not apply to any court or tribunal whose jurisdiction extends only to Scotland or Northern Ireland.
(3)In this paragraph “records” includes records of any proceedings in the court or tribunal in question and includes rolls, writs, books, decrees, bills, warrants and accounts of, or in the custody of, the court or tribunal in question.
Textual Amendments
Marginal Citations
Records of the Chancery of EnglandU.K.
5U.K.The records of the Chancery of England [, other than any which are Welsh public records (as defined in [the Government of Wales Act 2006]),] shall be public records for the purposes of this Act.
Records in Public Record OfficeU.K.
6U.K.Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, public records for the purposes of this Act shall include—
(a)all records within the meaning of the Public Record Office Act 1838, or to which that Act was applied, which at the commencement of this Act are in the custody of the Master of the Rolls in pursuance of that Act, and
(b)all records (within the meaning of the said Act or to which that Act was applied) which at the commencement of this Act are in the Public Record Office and, in pursuance of the said Act, under the charge and superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, and
(c)all records forming part of the same series as any series of documents falling under sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph [other than any which are Welsh public records (as defined in [the Government of Wales Act 2006])].
Textual Amendments
Marginal Citations
Power to add further categories of records and to determine cases of doubtU.K.
7(1)Without prejudice to the Lord Chancellor’s power of making orders under paragraph 4 of this Schedule, Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that any description of records not falling within the foregoing provisions of this Schedule [and not being Welsh public records (as defined in [the Government of Wales Act 2006])] shall be treated as public records for the purposes of this Act but no recommendation shall be made to Her Majesty in Council to make an Order under this sub-paragraph unless a draft of the Order has been laid before Parliament and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.U.K.
(2)A question whether any records or description of records are public records for the purposes of this Act shall be referred to and determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chancellor shall include his decisions on such questions in his annual report to Parliament and shall from time to time compile and publish lists of the departments, bodies, establishments, courts and tribunals comprised in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Schedule and lists describing more particularly the categories of records which are, or are not, public records as defined in this Schedule.
InterpretationU.K.
8U.K.It is hereby declared that any description of government department, court, tribunal or other body or establishment in this Schedule by reference to which a class of public records is framed extends to a government department, court, tribunal or other body or establishment, as the case may be, which has ceased to exist, whether before or after the passing of this Act.
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