Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1951 - 1983 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
No. of Boxes: 828
Context area
Name of creator
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Administrative history: The Registry Section was established ca. 1954; the system was discontinued in 1979, after the decision to move to a decentralized records management system. Function was the centralization of Secretariat recordkeeping in one large classification system. Predecessor was Central Registry Section. Succeeded by decentralized recordkeeping by departments in consultation with the Archives Section's records management programme.
Series consists of the Registry Section's files relating to social affairs. Arranged numerically according to filing plan, and therein chronologically.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
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Alpha-numeric by file plan
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Finding aids
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Allied materials area
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Related units of description
Related to: 14550: Signatures and Accessions to the Convention on the Nationality of Married Women done at New York, 20 February 1957 - UNITED KINGDOM - (3 files) Original of: 159: Central Registry 1954-1983 - Social Affairs (SO) - RAG-003/9 Is superseded by: 1985/0046: Consolidated Registry files, SO series