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Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Commonwealth Secretariat: Senior Officials Meeting


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).

Detailed 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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Commonwealth countries | Political systems
Political institutions | Government
Public administration | Government

Personal names
Bax | Neil | fl 1974 | economist
Lee | John Michael | b 1932 | sociologist and historian
Priestley | Margaret | fl 1974 | economist

Corporate names
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
Commonwealth Secretariat

Places