IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0101 ICS 89
Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Title: Commonwealth Secretariat: Senior Officials Meeting
Date(s): 1971-1974
Level of description: Collection (Fonds)
Extent: 1 file
Name of creator(s): Commonwealth Secretariat
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Commonwealth Secretariat was established in June 1965 by a decision of the 1964 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Prior to this date intra-Commonwealth affairs had been administered by British Civil Servants. The Secretariat was designed to assist internal co-operation between member states and was never intended to have executive powers.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minutes and papers on Commonwealth Secretariat Senior Officials Meeting, Marlborough House, London, 20-23 May 1974; including background papers on comparative techniques for government for Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in Ottawa, Aug 1973; papers on current and projected work of the Commonwealth Secretariat; paper by Neil Bax and Margaret Priestley 'Forward Planning and Financial Control on the Commonwealth', with associated material; papers on appointment of a consultant to undertake study of financial control and development expenditure; draft minutes of first session of Senior Officials Meeting, 20 May 1974, with manuscript notes on the meeting by J M Lee.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Chronological.
Conditions governing access:
Open although advance notice should be given. Access to individual items may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or Freedom of Information legislation.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No copying at permitted at present.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogued to item level (see link to repository catalogue).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited by Prof J M Lee, 1974.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Presumed to be in Commonwealth Secretariat Archives, Marlborough House.
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.
Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd Edition, 2000. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2001