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Circular letters [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Sub-series

Date:

1930-1993

Reference:

R776-126-5-E, RG55

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

160178

Context of this record:

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Treasury Board fonds

Treasury Board (Committee of the Privy Council) sous-fonds

Segregated Treasury Board Minutes and Orders in Council

Circular letters
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Sub-series includes:

103 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1930-1993

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Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

2.4 m of textual records

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

Scope and content:

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Sub-series consists of a set of Circular Letters centrally maintained from 1930 to 1993 by the Treasury Board as a Statutory Committee of Cabinet with delegated authority to act within certain parameters by the Financial Administration Act and other legislation. Circular letters are Treasury Board Decisions (or Minutes as they were called in the past) which have general applicability to some aspect of Public Service administration (the management of financial resources, human resources or materiel and information resources). It is the generality of the scope of the applicability which distinguishes Circular Letters from other Treasury Board decisions, most of which relate to very specific transactions. The Circular Letters, like other Treasury Board Decisions, are authority documents based on legislative mandate. In some cases the Letters like some Decisions have the equivalent authority of an Order In Council while in other cases the circulars are often backed up by the official authority of an Order in Council where the scope of the authority extends beyond legislative delegations. The series includes files identified as Minutes, Orders in Council, and Special Letters. The difference among the files appears to relate to the scope of the application. The designation Circular Letters is reserved for regulations or guidelines with the broadest application. Other informal designations for such circular letters includes regulations and directives.

The Circulars are simply arranged by year (and not by topic or function). The individual files often contain attached summary lists of the contents, indicating if particular circulars were superseded at some later date and the dates of the changes.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list indicating title, year and volume number. The finding aid's file level descriptions can be accessed through the "consists of" field in the Mikan record, or a paper copy is available in the Reference room. 55-78 (90: Open)

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Source of title:

Title is based on the content of the series and the title assigned by to it by Treasury Board during the period that it held custody.

Custodial history:

The records were transferred directly from the Treasury Board Secretariat in archival containers with permanent volume references assigned (RG 55 vols. 22038-22049)

Accruals:

Further accruals are unlikely.

Related material:

Related material may exist in any of the series contained in the Treasury Board Sous-fonds, as a committee of cabinet.

Source:

Government

Related control no.:

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1999-00485-X
97/028
RG55-A-4
RG55-A-5

Former archival reference no.:

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RG55
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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [RG55]

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

22038--22040;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

22042--22045;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

22047--22049;

[Consultation 32 Restricted by law]

Volume [RG55]

[Consultation 90 Open]

22041;

[Consultation 90 Open]

22046;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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