SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Definition of Public Records

Departmental records

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,—

(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 F1, 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 F2or

(e)

to Welsh public records (as defined in F3the 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.

(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).

PART I

BODIES AND ESTABLISHMENTS UNDER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

Responsible Government Department

F4Department 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.

F5Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Meteorological Office.

F6. . .

F7. . .

F8Department of Health

National Health Service Authorities F9including F10Primary Care TrustsF11, National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts other than local health authorities F12and 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).

F13Family Practitioner CommitteesF14for localities in England

F15health service hospitals, within the meaning of the National Health Service Act 1977F16, 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.

F17 records of property passing to F18 Regional, Area or District Health Authorities or special health authorities under sections 23 to 26 of the M1 National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 F19 , 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 F20Regional,Area or District Health Authority or special health authority under section 21 or 22 of the said Act 1973F21, 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

F22records of trust property passing to a F23Strategic Health Authority, Health Authority, Special Health Authority or Primary Care Trust by virtue of the Health Authorities Act 1995 F24, under section 213 of the National Health Service Act 2006 or section 161 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006, or held by F25a Strategic Health Authority or a Health Authority under section 90 or 91 of F26the 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.

F27. . .

Home Office

Office of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

Office of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.

F28Department of Employment

National Dock Labour Board.

National Institute of Houseworkers Limited.

Wages Boards and Wages Councils.

F29Department of Social Security

National Insurance Advisory Committee.

Industrial Injuries Advisory Council.

F30Attendance Allowance Board.

National Insurance and Industrial Injuries Joint Authorities.

Workmen’s Compensation Supplementation Board.

Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board.

F31. . .

F32. . .

F33Department of Transport

Air Transport Advisory Council.

Air Registration Board.

F34Airworthiness Requirements Board, Civil Aviation Authority.

F35Strategic Rail Authority.

F36Ministry of Justice

F37Legal Aid Board

F38Legal Services Commission

PART II

OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS AND ORGANISATIONS

  • F39...

  • Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board.

  • F40Armouries

  • F41Arts and Humanities Research Council.

  • F42The Big Lottery Fund.

  • F43The Board of the Pension Protection Fund.

  • F44The Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.

  • F45British Coal Corporation

  • F46British Council.

  • British Museum (including the Natural History Museum).

  • F47Care Council for Wales.

  • F48The Care Quality Commission F49and the Healthwatch England committee.

  • Catering Wages Commission.

  • F50Central Police Training and Development Authority

  • F51Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.

  • F52...

  • F53Civil Nuclear Police Authority.

  • F54Coal Authority

  • Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.

  • F55Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

  • F56The Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

  • F57...

  • F58...

  • F59Commission on Industrial Relations

  • F60Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health.

  • F61Commission for Rural Communities.

  • F62...

  • F63The Committee on Climate Change.

  • F64 The company that was nominated under section 62 of the Postal Services Act 2000 (reorganisation of the Post Office: transfer of property etc to nominated company).

  • F65Competition Commission.

  • F66Competition Service

  • F67Compliance Officer for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

  • F68...

  • F69Consumer Council for Water.

  • F70Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence

  • F71...

  • F72Criminal Cases Review Commission

  • F73Crown 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.

  • F74Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board.

  • F75...

  • F76...

  • F77A development agency established under section 1 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.

  • Development Commission.

  • F78Director of Fair Access to Higher Education

  • F79...

  • F80Economic and Social Research Council.

  • F81Electoral Commission.

  • F82. . .

  • F83Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

  • F84...

  • F85The Environment Agency

  • F86 Funding Agency for Schools

  • F87Further Education Funding Council for England.

  • F88...

  • F89Gangmasters Licensing Authority

  • F68...

  • F90General Social Care Council.

  • F91...

  • F92General Teaching Council for Wales.

  • F87Higher Education Funding Council for England.

  • F93...

  • F94Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

  • F95The Homes and Communities Agency.

  • F96Human Tissue Authority.

  • Imperial War Museum.

  • F97The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority.

  • F98Information Commissioner.

  • F99Infrastructure Planning Commission.

  • Irish Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Land Trust.

  • F100...

  • F101The Legal Services Board.

  • F102The Legal Services Consultative Panel.

  • F103...

  • F104Local Better Regulation Office.

  • F105Local Government Boundary Commission for England.

  • London Museum.

  • F106The Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct

  • F107. . .

  • F108The Marine Management Organisation.

  • F109Medical Research Council.

  • F110...

  • F111F112Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

  • F113National Audit Office

  • F57...

  • F114. . .

  • F115The National Consumer Council.

  • National Gallery.

  • F110...

  • F116National Lottery Commission.

  • National Maritime Museum.

  • F84...

  • F117National Policing Improvement Agency.

  • National Portrait Gallery.

  • National Savings Committee.

  • F118Natural England.

  • F119Natural Environment Research Council.

  • F120...

  • F110...

  • F121Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

  • F122Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority.

  • F123Office for Budget Responsibility.

  • F124Office of Communications.

  • F125...

  • F126Office of Fair Trading.

  • F127The Office of the Health Professions Adjudicator.

  • F128The Office for Legal Complaints.

  • F129...

  • F130Olympic Delivery Authority.

  • F131Olympic Lottery Distributor.

  • F132The Ombudsman for the Board of the Pension Protection Fund.

  • F133Passengers’ Council.

  • F134Pensions Compensation Board.

  • F135Pensions Ombudsman.

  • F136The Pensions Regulator.

  • F137Personal Accounts Delivery Authority

  • F138Police Information Technology Organisation

  • F139....

  • F139...

  • F64A Post Office company within the meaning of Part 1 of the Postal Services Act 2011.

  • F140...

  • F141...

  • F142Rail Passengers’ Committees.

  • F143...

  • Remploy Limited.

  • F144Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  • Royal Greenwich Observatory.

  • F64A Royal Mail company within the meaning of Part 1 of the Postal Services Act 2011.

  • F145School Curriculum and Assessment Authority

  • F146...

  • F147Science Museum

  • F148Security Industry Authority.

  • F149Serious Organised Crime Agency.

  • F150...

  • F151...

  • F152The Simpler Trade Procedures Board.

  • F153Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

  • Tate Gallery.

  • F154...

  • F155Technology Strategy Board.

  • F156Traffic Director for London

  • F157...

  • F158. . .

  • F159The trustee corporation established by section 75 of the Pensions Act 2008.

  • Trustee Savings Banks Inspection Committee.

  • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

  • University Grants Committee.

  • F160Valuation Tribunal Service.

  • F161Victoria and Albert Museum

  • Wallace Collection.

  • War Works Commission.

  • F162...

  • 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 F163....

F1643A

(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—

(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.