| 单词 | fifty-year rule |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfifty-year rule fifty-year rule n. a rule that public records should normally be open to inspection after a lapse of fifty years from their compilation (superseded in the U.K. from 1968 by the thirty-year rule: see thirty adj. and n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] > specific rule applying to historical records fifty-year rule1959 1912 1st Rep. Royal Comm. Public Rec. 51 in Parl. Papers 1912–13 (Cd. 6361) I. 13 The following improvements are..considered desirable... Throwing all Departmental Records open to public inspection down to 1837, and all other Public Records after 50 years from their date, without exception in either case.] 1959 Encounter Aug. 41/1 The ‘fifty-year rule’ which the archivists of the most enlightened countries claim to observe is a rule of rough-and-ready nature. 1966 Times 11 Aug. 13/2 Mr. Luard..asked the Prime Minister for a further statement about the relaxation of the 50-year rule governing the opening to public inspection of Cabinet and other official documents. < as lemmas |
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