| AdminHistory | The Corporation used a Central Registry to manage its records from the creation of its first office in Edinburgh in 1962 until the late 1980s, at which point the Central Registry was disbanded into an Administrative/Legal registry and a Technical Registry. At this point the files were removed from a central location and housed with parent departments.
The Registry system covered Legal, Administrative and Technical records and included both a law library and a technical library. Finance, Housing, Quantity Surveyors and the Commercial Directorate (Industrial Estates and Development) did not use the registry system for their own files.
Administration and Legal operated as one department until 1990. However, given the separation in professional responsibilities between the two functions and the need for specialisation, they operated largely independently of one another by the late 1980s with a separate Depute for each section.
The Legal department was responsible for leases, disposals, acquisitions, department recovery, contract acceptances and disputes, issuing superiors consents, safekeeping of corporation title deeds, secretariat to the board and any other legal work required by the Corporation. It is these files, especially those concerned with land and property, that constitute the vast majority of the records in the Legal and Administration Registry.
The Adminstration section was responsible for personnel, staff training, health and safety, office services and ensuring the effective and efficient functioning of Corporation departments. |
| ScopeandContent | The Corporation's registry system used 30 classifications which have been retained in the creation of this catalogue. They are as follows:
LDC/FD/1/1 Department Reference 01 - Courses and Conferences
2. Department Reference 2 - Not Allocated
3. Department Reference 3 - Administration
4. Department Reference 4 - Finance
5. Department Reference 5 - Insurance, professional indemnity
6. Department Reference 6 - Exhibitions
7. Department Reference 7 - Licensing committee
8. Department Reference 8 - Estate Management
9. Department Reference 9 - Landscaping
10. Department Reference 10 - Designated Area
11. Department Reference 11 - Acquisitions
12. Department Reference 12 - Disposals
13. Department Reference 13 - Soils, minerals, geology
14. Department Reference 14 - Planning Policy
15. Department Reference 15 - Education, general
16. Department Reference 16 - Roads
17. Department Reference 17 - Transport
18. Department Reference 18 - Housing
19. Department Reference 19 - Surveys
20. Department Reference 20 - Industrial Development
21. Department Reference 21 - Planning Applications
22. Department Reference 22 - Kirkton Campus
23. Department Reference 23 - Services
24. Department Reference 24 - Schools
25. Department Reference 25 - Wayleaves
26. Department Reference 26 - Health centres, hospitals
27. Department Reference 27 - Bridges
28. Department Reference 28 - Almondvale Phase 1/Town Centre Planning
29. Department Reference 29 - Almondvale Phase 2
30. Legal, Administration and Finance microfilms
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