Re: National Registration Act 1939

An interesting choice of words by Mr Philp.."so we regard them essentially
as if they were the results of a census....." Civil Service words are
usually carefully chosen (I speak as a retired one). He appears to be saying
that there was no specific bar to release of the information included in the
original legislation but that, administratively, they are behaving as if
there was. If there had been a specific bar, he surely would have said so eg
"under section blah of the 1939 Act" but he doesn't. This would particularly
be the case if the 1939 Act was repealed without any Consequential
Provisions legislation. So it may well be that their refusal to release
information from those files is actually illegal. Anyone want to try a
Freedom of Information request?


Brian Austin
<Stanmapstone@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2ca.936a3.30d13d79@xxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> From 'Family Tree Magazine' September 2001.
> Quoting a letter from Jon Williams of the National Health Service Central
> Register, part of the Office for National Statistics, at Smedley Hydro,
> Southport about the Enumerators' books for the 1939 National Registration
Scheme.
> "You will no doubt be pleased to hear that we still have these books. They
> have been held here in Smedley Hydro since 1939. ..... The National Health
> Service Central Register for England and Wales was only computerised in
1991 and
> up to that time the books were in constant daily use and so they have had
a
> lot of wear. We have been in discussions with the Public Record Office on
how
> best to preserve these records and present them for eventual release to
the
> general public. "
>
> There was also a quote from a letter sent by Brian Philp, the Deputy
> Registrar General for Scotland, in the July 2001 issue, part of which
stated:
> "The enumeration books formed the paper database underpinning the issue of
> identity cards, so they were kept up-to-date throughout the war........
North
> of the Border the NHS Central Register...... for Scotland has long been a
> computerised database, but the wartime books survive in our care. The
> information they contain was obtained from the public compulsorily under
statute, so we
> regard them essentially as if they were the results of a census, and we
> store them carefully with a view to their eventual release into the
public domain
> 100 years on from 1939"
> Regards Stan Mapstone
> www.mapstone.org
>


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