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Series details for: A5840
Series number
A5840
Title
Second Holt and McEwen Ministries - folders of decisions of Cabinet and Cabinet committees
Accumulation dates
14 Dec 1966 - 08 Jan 1968
Contents dates
14 Dec 1966 - 08 Jan 1968
Items in this series on RecordSearch
780

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Agency/person recording
  • 14 Dec 1966 - 08 Jan 1968
    CA 3, Secretary to Cabinet/Cabinet Secretariat [I]
Agency/person controlling
  • 12 Mar 1971 -
    CA 1472, Cabinet Office
Quantity and location
  • 0.6 metres held in ACT
System of arrangement/ control
Items: single number Contents: single number with occasional letter suffix denoting decision made by specified Cabinet Committee (see Full Note)
Range of control symbols
Item: Volume 1-3 Entries: 1-777
Predominant physical format
PAPER FILES AND DOCUMENTS
Series note
This series consists of three brown visidex folders with pale blue spine  labels bearing the title: "Second Holt Ministry. Cabinet decisions" and the volume number and range of contents. 

Within, decisions are arranged in a single number sequence, one page per decision (or more if necessary).  A suffix is added to the decision number to distinguish between the three categories of decision making operative at that time:

     - The First category was The Ministry which was the broadest
       category, comprising all ministers, and its decisions bear an
       "M" suffix. 

     - The second category was an inner Cabinet of senior
       Ministers, with occasional co-options.  There was no letter
       suffix added to its decisions numbers. 

     - The third category was the Committees of the Cabinet - groups
       of Ministers who dealt with matters affecting their
       portfolios. 

       The letter symbol for the Committee is added to the Decision
       Number to identify its decisions eg. (LEG) for Legislation
       Committee.
 
       Cabinet Committee abbreviations:

          AD HOC         Ad Hoc Committee                        
          EC             Economic Committee              
          EX             Ex Servicemen's Committee          
          FAD            Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee
          GA             General Administrative Committee        
          HOC            Ad Hoc Committee           
          LEG            Legislation Committee
          M              Ministry  
          PA             Privileges and Amenities Committee
          PP             Government Purchasing Policy Committee      
          TAX            Taxation Committee            
          W              Works Committee  

Each decision bears the number, title, submission number where applicable and text of the Decision. It is stamped as a
certified true copy with signature stamp of the Secretary to Cabinet.

Decision numbers 735 and 736 (both without memorandum), attributed to the Cabinet meeting of 7 Dec 1967, were not used, but the actual decisions were renumbered as decisions 751 and 750 respectively with the same date of meeting. 

No separate series of records was maintained for the McEwen Ministry.  This series contains the following decisions recorded by this short-lived Ministry, 19 Dec 1967 to 10 Jan 1968, which took office after the disappearance of Mr. Holt.

       Decision No. 761 (AD HOC) of 21 Dec 1967
       Decision No. 769 (EC) of 4 Jan 1968
       Decision No. 770 (EC) of 4 Jan 1968
       Decision No. 774 (EC) of 4 Jan 1968
       Decision No. 772 (AD HOC) of 8 Jan 1968

No parallel series of submissions was maintained contemporaneously. 
Submissions were placed on files in CRS A4940, Cabinet files, "C" single number series, 1958-1967. Copies from these files have been assembled by the Cabinet Office into two artificial sets registered as CRS A5842.

Quantity in agency custody

0.24m (3vols) held by CA 1472, Cabinet Office
Previous series
  • 14 Dec 1966
    A5839, First Holt Ministry - folders of decisions of Cabinet and Cabinet Committees
Subsequent series
  • 11 Jan 1968
    A5871, First Gorton Ministry - folders of decisions of Cabinet and Cabinet committees
Controlling series
  • 14 Dec 1966 - 08 Jan 1968
    A5843, Second Holt and McEwen Ministries - register of decisions of Cabinet and Cabinet committees
Related series
  •  
    A5842, Second Holt Ministry - copies of Cabinet submissions and associated decisions [1966-1967]
  • 14 Dec 1966 - 14 Dec 1967
    A5844, Holt Ministries - Ministerial register of Cabinet submissions
  • 14 Dec 1966 - 20 Dec 1967
    A5822, Seventh Menzies (second series), Eighth Menzies, First and Second Holt, and McEwen Ministries - Register of Chronology of Meetings of Cabinet and Cabinet Committees
  • 14 Dec 1966 - 08 Jan 1968
    A4940, Menzies and Holt Ministries - Cabinet files 'C' single number series
  • 14 Dec 1966 - 08 Jan 1968
    A5830, Seventh and Eighth Menzies, Holt, McEwen, and First and Second Gorton Ministries - Binder of Cabinet attendance sheets
Visibility & availability indicator
  • 67 . Digital image charge: Small
  • 73 . All items from the series are on RecordSearch
Date registered
02 Oct 1987

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