Identity area
Reference code
AU WA S3952
Title
CORRESPONDENCE FILES
Date(s)
- 1886-01-01 - (Creation)
- 1886 - 1958 (Accumulation)
Level of description
Series
Medium
Format
Files
Status
Context area
Name of creator
AU WA A245 - REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE
(1957-07-01 - 1999-04-14)
Administrative history
Formerly the Registrar General's and Government Statistician's Office within the Chief Secretary's Department. The two functions were split on 1 July 1957 and the Registrar General's Office was created to operate within the Chief Secretary's Department (until 1983). Civil registration of births, deaths and marriages has been compulsory in Western Australia since 1841.
Name of creator
AU WA A279 - REGISTRAR GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT
(1896-01-01 - 1901-01-01)
Administrative history
The 1894 Act repealed the 1841 Act to register births, deaths and marriages and allowed for the establishment of District Registrars each with a defined district. From 1906 births, deaths and marriages are recorded by district and number. With the establishment of the Commonwealth combined with the Government Statisticians Office until 1957.
Name of creator
AU WA A280 - REGISTRAR GENERAL'S AND GOVERNMENT STATISTICIAN'S DEPARTMENT
(1901-01-01 - 1957-06-30)
Administrative history
Previously the Registrar General's Department, it combined with the Government Statisticians Office upon federation in 1901. The Department remained as such, and responsible to the Colonial Secretary's Office and its successor, the Chief Secretary's Department until 1957 when the two functions were split. The Registrar General's office was created to operate as a Division of the Chief Secretary's Department and its successors.
Repository
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This is the main series of correspondence files for the Registrar General's Department/Office. The files document a range of operational, policy, legal and administrative matters.
(Files in this Record Series were previously listed at the State Records Office at reference: AN9/2, Accession 851).
Accruals
System of arrangement
Annual single number
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Open
Conditions governing access (legacy)
Open access