From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:06:18 +0100, Charles Ellson    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 12:34:56 +0100, MB  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 22/04/2018 11:22, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>> Destruction of written records like those is particularly bad from a   
   >>> ganealogical point of view. Passenger lists are useful, but gnerally   
   >>> far less useful, because they record less of the kind of information   
   >>> that is likely to be useful to genealogists.   
   >>>   
   >>> Destroying landing records is a bit like destroying birth registers 70   
   >>> years after a person has died.   
   >>   
   >That depends on the exact purpose of the landing records. Were they   
   >_then_ there for immigration purposes, ensuring the safe opperation of   
   >shipping, detecting criminals/undesirables (on grounds other than   
   >"being foreign") at the point of landing or something else ?   
      
   I suppose you could find out if you found the enabling legislation or   
   some notice in an official government gazette that required them.   
      
   When I first went to the UK I filled in a landing card, but I doubt if   
   a passenger list of the aircraft was kept. I also had to register and   
   still have my Aliens Registration Certificate -- I think that the act   
   that required that was dated 1953. But that did not apply to   
   Commonwealth citizens in those days.   
      
      
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