concerned people who were no longer living. In 2015, The National Archives entered into an agreement under which the original 29 September 1939 registers—as updated by the NHS until 1991—have been scanned, digitised, and made available subject to privacy restrictions on the subscription-based Findmypast and Ancestry.com websites. The digital images can also be viewed free-of-charge at the archive's reading rooms in Kew. The archive's access project does not, however, include records related to people who were first registered after 29 September 1939, as this information is contained in separate register books that have not been made available to the public. Scotland The registration process in Scotland was conducted by the General Register Office for Scotland. The register was used as the basis for the NHS Central Register from 1948 onwards but, unlike in England and Wales, the original register books remained with the General Register Office and are now held by the National Records of Scotland (NRS). Following a successful application under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 in December 2009, members of the public have been able to apply to the NRS for an official extract from the 1939 register of information concerning people who are no longer living. However, on the grounds that a Scottish census record is invariably sealed for 100 years, the information in the extract is limited to the person's address, age, occupation, and marital status at the time of registration. Northern Ireland Registration records for Northern Ireland are accessible via the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. Isle of Man Registration records for the Isle of Man are not known to have survived. See also NHS number Identity Cards Act 2006 Rayner Goddard, Baron Goddard Defence Regulations Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II Notes References External links Select Committee on Home Affairs Fourth Report, 20 July 2004 Michael Caines, Identity crisis, Times Online, 11 April 2006 Nick Cohen, Blunkett's identity crisis, The Observer, 30 June 2002 Jon Agar, Identity cards in Britain: past experience and policy implications Privacy International, History of ID Cards in the United Kingdom, 1 Jan 1997 Statewatch, Identity cards in the UK - a lesson from history The 1939 National Identity Card Emergency laws in the United Kingdom 1939 in law United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1939 United Kingdom in World War II