[UMA-SRE-20160052] Australian Red Cross Royal Charter, Rules of the Society

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IdentifierUMA-SRE-20160052Extent2 boxesLinear Meterage0.24Scope and ContentComprises documents relating to the establishment of the Australian Red Cross by Royal Charter, granting the rights, powers and the terms of reference of the society. This series comprises additions and amendments to the Royal Charter (1928) and Supplemental Charter (1999), as well as correspondence regarding it history in being recognised as a separate body from the British Red Cross (2016.0052.00001).
This series also contains records relating to governance - the Rules of the Australian Red Cross Society, as well as comprising regulations, by-laws, rules, objectives and management of branches within the Divisions of New South Wales, Victorian, Tasmanian, Northern Territory, Western Australian, Capital Territory, Queensland, and South Australia as well as regulations of the Papua New Guinea Division (2016.0052.0028) which was previously attached to the Queensland Division. Further records relating to Papua New Guinea - Division Records (2016.0060).
Documents have been artificially arranged by the Red Cross - National Office and ordered chronologically.
Published resources relating to the Royal Charter and the Rules of the Australian Red Cross Society:
http://www.redcross.org.au/files/Royal_Charter_Consolidated_and_Fourth_Supplemental_Charter.pdf
http://www.redcross.org.au/files/ARC_RULES.pdf
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CreatorAustralian Red Cross Society, National Office

Dates

Date1923-2005

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Previous System ID2016.0052Other IDsRed Cross Archives series reference » NO7State of ListFully listed

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Feature CollectionRecords of the Australian Red Cross

University of Melbourne Archives

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[UMA-SRE-20160052] Australian Red Cross Royal Charter, Rules of the Society