Society of Registration Officers
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The Society of Registration Officers was a trade union representing officers of the vital registration service in England and Wales. Members provide the local birth, marriage and death registration service, the majority working in local Register Office
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After decades of campaigning, together with UNISON, the major public service union, the Society finally succeeded in seeing statutory registration officers receive legal employment status in 2007 when, on 1 December of that year, they became employees of their relevant local authority following the enactment of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007
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The Society also played a major part in the development of the registration service over many years, working closely with the General Register Office and local authorities. Its membership had an exceedingly close and strong attachment to their work and therefore to the service they delivered to the public.
With the arrival of the long awaited employment status for the field registration officers the Society, as a trade union, had no further role to play. The majority of its members were also members of UNISON.
On 12th March 2009 a resolution was passed that the Society be dissolved. The Registrar of Trades Unions concurred in January 2010 and the Society of Registration Officers closed for business with the same dignity with which it had vigorously pursued its aims for many decades.
Register office
A register office is a British term for a civil registry, a government office and depository where births, deaths and marriages are officially recorded and where you can get officially married, without a religious ceremony...
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After decades of campaigning, together with UNISON, the major public service union, the Society finally succeeded in seeing statutory registration officers receive legal employment status in 2007 when, on 1 December of that year, they became employees of their relevant local authority following the enactment of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007
Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007
The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established the UK Statistics Authority . It came into force in April 2008. Sir Michael Scholar was appointed as the first Chair of the UKSA....
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The Society also played a major part in the development of the registration service over many years, working closely with the General Register Office and local authorities. Its membership had an exceedingly close and strong attachment to their work and therefore to the service they delivered to the public.
With the arrival of the long awaited employment status for the field registration officers the Society, as a trade union, had no further role to play. The majority of its members were also members of UNISON.
On 12th March 2009 a resolution was passed that the Society be dissolved. The Registrar of Trades Unions concurred in January 2010 and the Society of Registration Officers closed for business with the same dignity with which it had vigorously pursued its aims for many decades.