SCHEDULES

C2FIRST SCHEDULE Definition of Public Records

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2

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Sch. 1 excluded (E.W.S.) (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, s. 125(6); S.I. 1994/571, art. 5 (with art. 7) (which exclusion was repealed (18.7.1996) by 1996 c. 42, s. 8(2)(3))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

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).

TABLE

C1PART I

BODIES AND ESTABLISHMENTS UNDER GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS

Responsible Government Department

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Agricultural Wages Board.

Agricultural Wages Committees.

Organisation known as the “National Farm Survey”.

Official seed testing station for England and Wales.

F126Ministry of Defence

Meteorological Office.

F127. . .

F128. . .

F129Department of Health

National Health Service Authorities F130including National Health Service Trusts other than local health authorities.

F131Family Practitioner Committees

F132health service hospitals, within the meaning of the National Health Service Act 1977 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.

F133records of property passing to F134Regional, Area or District Health Authorities or special health authorities under sections 23 to 26 of the M1National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 F135or section 92 of the M2National Health Service Act 1977

records of property held by a F136Regional, Area or District Health Authority or special health authority under section 21 or 22 of the said Act 1973F137or section 90 or 91 of the National Health Service Act 1977

F138records of trust property passing to a Health Authority or Special Health Authority by virtue of the Health Authorities Act 1995 or under section 92 of the National Health Service Act 1977 or held by a Health Authority under section 90 or 91 of that Act.

Welsh Board of Health.

Home Office

Office of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

Office of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.

F139Department of Employment

National Dock Labour Board.

National Institute of Houseworkers Limited.

Wages Boards and Wages Councils.

F140Department of Social Security

National Insurance Advisory Committee.

Industrial Injuries Advisory Council.

F141Attendance Allowance Board.

National Insurance and Industrial Injuries Joint Authorities.

Workmen’s Compensation Supplementation Board.

Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Board.

F142Occupational Pensions Board

F143. . .

F144Department of Transport

Air Transport Advisory Council.

Air Registration Board.

F145Airworthiness Requirements Board, Civil Aviation Authority.

F146Lord Chancellor’s Department

F147Legal Aid Board

X1C3PART IIOTHER ESTABLISHMENTS AND ORGANISATIONS

  • F1F2Adult Learning Inspectorate

  • Anglo-Egyptian Resettlement Board.

  • F3Armouries

  • F4The Big Lottery Fund.

  • F5The Board of the Pension Protection Fund.

  • F6The Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.

  • F7British Coal Corporation

  • F8British Council.

  • British Museum (including the Natural History Museum).

  • F9Care Council for Wales.

  • F10the Care Quality Commission.

  • Catering Wages Commission.

  • F11Central Police Training and Development Authority

  • F12Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.

  • F13Civil Nuclear Police Authority.

  • F14Coal Authority

  • Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation.

  • F15Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

  • F16The Commission for Equality and Human Rights.

  • F17F18 Commission for Health Improvement.

  • F19Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection

  • F20Commission on Industrial Relations

  • F21Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health.

  • F22Commission for Rural Communities.

  • F23Commission for Social Care Inspection

  • F24The Committee on Climate Change.

  • F25Competition Commission.

  • F26Competition Service

  • F27F28Consumer Council for Postal Services.

  • F29Consumer Council for Water.

  • F30Council for the Regulation of Health Care Professionals.

  • F31F32Countryside Council for Wales

  • F33Criminal Cases Review Commission

  • F34Crown 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.

  • F35Crown Agents Holding and Realisation Board.

  • F36F37C4Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales

  • F38F39the Data Protection Commissioner

  • F40A development agency established under section 1 of the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998.

  • Development Commission.

  • F41Director of Fair Access to Higher Education

  • F42F43Disability Rights Commission.

  • F44Electoral Commission.

  • F45. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F46F47English Nature.

  • F48The Environment Agency

  • F49C4Funding Agency for Schools

  • F50 Further Education Funding Council for England.

  • F51F50Further Education Funding Council for Wales.

  • F27F52Gas and Electricity Consumer Council.

  • F53General Social Care Council.

  • F54General Teaching Council for England.

  • F55General Teaching Council for Wales.

  • F50Higher Education Funding Council for England.

  • F56F50Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.

  • F57Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England

  • F58The Homes and Communities Agency.

  • F59Human Tissue Authority.

  • Imperial War Museum.

  • F60Information Commissioner.

  • Irish Sailors’ and Soldiers’ Land Trust.

  • F61Learning and Skills Council for England.

  • F62The Legal Services Board.

  • F63The Legal Services Consultative Panel.

  • F64 The Legal Services Ombudsman

  • F65Local Better Regulation Office.

  • London Museum.

  • F66The Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct

  • F67. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F68F69Millennium Commission.

  • F70F71Monopolies and Mergers Commission.

  • F72National Audit Office

  • F17F73National Care Standards Commission

  • F74. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • F75The National Consumer Council.

  • National Gallery.

  • F68F76National Lottery Charities Board.

  • F77National Lottery Commission.

  • National Maritime Museum.

  • F46F78Countryside Agency

  • F79National Policing Improvement Agency.

  • National Portrait Gallery.

  • National Savings Committee.

  • F80Natural England.

  • F81F82Nature Conservancy Council for England

  • F68F83New Opportunities Fund.

  • F84Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.

  • F85Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority.

  • F86Office of Communications.

  • F87Office of F88the Director General of Fair Trading.

  • F89Office of Fair Trading.

  • F90Office for Tenants and Social Landlords.

  • F91Olympic Delivery Authority.

  • F92Olympic Lottery Distributor.

  • F93The Ombudsman for the Board of the Pension Protection Fund.

  • F94Pensions Compensation Board.

  • F95Pensions Ombudsman.

  • F96The Pensions Regulator.

  • F97Personal Accounts Delivery Authority

  • F98Police Information Technology Organisation

  • F99Post Office.

  • F100Post Office company (within the meaning of Part IV of the Postal Services Act 2000).

  • F101Qualifications and Curriculum Authority

  • F102F103Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales

  • F104Rail Passengers’ Committees.

  • F105Rail Passengers’ Council.

  • Remploy Limited.

  • F106Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

  • Royal Greenwich Observatory.

  • F107C4School Curriculum and Assessment Authority

  • F108F49C4Schools Funding Council for Wales

  • F109Science Museum

  • F110Security Industry Authority.

  • F111Serious Organised Crime Agency.

  • F112F113The Service Authority for the National Crime Squad.

  • F114F115The Service Authority for the National Criminal Intelligence Service.

  • F116The Simpler Trade Procedures Board.

  • Tate Gallery.

  • F117F118Teacher Training Agency

  • F119Technology Strategy Board.

  • F120Traffic Director for London

  • F121Training and Development Agency for Schools

  • F122. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  • Trustee Savings Banks Inspection Committee.

  • United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

  • University Grants Committee.

  • F123Valuation Tribunal Service.

  • F124Victoria 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 F125or Wales.