Paragraph 6

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 1 para. 3 Table Pt. 2 words repealed by Care Standards Sch. 6
Sch. 1 para. 3 Table Pt. 2 entry repealed by Government of Wales Act 1998 Sch. 18 Pt. 2
Sch. 1 para. 3 Table Pt. 2 words inserted by Trade Act 2021 Sch. 6 para. 1
Sch. 1 para. 3 Table words inserted by Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 Sch. 2 para. 20
Sch. 1 para. 2(2)(b) words inserted by Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Sch. 3 para. 21

Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Schedule, public records for the purposes of this Act shall include—

(a)

all records within the meaning of the M1Public Record Office Act 1838, or to which that Act was applied, which at the commencement of this Act are in the custody of the Master of the Rolls in pursuance of that Act, and

(b)

all records (within the meaning of the said Act or to which that Act was applied) which at the commencement of this Act are in the Public Record Office and, in pursuance of the said Act, under the charge and superintendence of the Master of the Rolls, and

(c)

all records forming part of the same series as any series of documents falling under sub-paragraph (a) or sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph F1other than any which are Welsh public records (as defined in F2the Government of Wales Act 2006).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 1 para. 6 inserted (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 38, s. 125, Sch. 12 para. 3(5) (with ss. 139(2), 143(2)); S.I. 1999/782, art. 2
F2: Words in Sch. 1 para. 6 substituted by Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) , s. 160(1), {Sch. 10 para. 7(c)}, the amending provision coming into force immediately after "the 2007 election" (held on 3.5.2007) subject to s. 161(4)(5) of the amending Act, which provides for certain provisions to come into force for specified purposes immediately after the end of "the initial period" (which ended with the day of the first appointment of a First Minister on 25.5.2007) - see ss. 46, 161(1)(4)(5) of the amending Act.

Marginal citations

M1: 1838 c. 94.

Notes on Schedule FIRST

Modifications

C1

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Sch. 1 excluded (E.W.S.) (1.4.1994) by 1993 c. 43, s. 125(6); S.I. 1994/571, art. 5 (with art. 7) (which exclusion was repealed (18.7.1996) by 1996 c. 42, s. 8(2)(3))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

C2

Sch. 1: power to amend conferred (1.10.2011) by Postal Services Act 2011 (c. 5), s. 93(2)(3), Sch. 12 para. 84; S.I. 2011/2329, art. 3