Public Records Act 1967
1967
CHAPTER 44
An Act to reduce the
period of fifty years specified in section 5(1) of the Public Records Act 1958
as that for which certain public records must have been in existence for them
to be available for public inspection [14th
July 1967]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and commons, in this present parliament
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. In subsection (1) of section 5 of the Public Records Act 1958 (which
provides that public records in the Public Record Office, with certain
exceptions, shall not be available for public inspection until they have been
in existence for fifty years or such other period as the Lord Chancellor may,
in accordance with that subsection, prescribe as respects any particular class
of public records) for the words “until they have been in existence for fifty
years or such other period”, there shall be substituted the words “until the
expiration of the period of thirty years beginning with the first day of
January in the year next after that in which they were created, or of such
other period”.
2.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Public Records Act 1967.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on 1st January 1968.
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