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Series
Crown Agents for the Colonies and predecessor: Pay Office Files
Catalogue reference: CAOG 15
What's it about?
CAOG 15
This series contains files of the Crown Agents' Pay Division on the approval and payment of salaries, allowances and pensions to staff working for overseas principals and to their families. They include papers on the rights and responsibilities...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- CAOG 15
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Title (The name of the record)
- Crown Agents for the Colonies and predecessor: Pay Office Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1869-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Crown Agents' Pay Division on the approval and payment of salaries, allowances and pensions to staff working for overseas principals and to their families. They include papers on the rights and responsibilities of staff in connection with such matters as National Health Service contributions and income tax, and the effects on payments of currency devaluations and other problems.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Crown Agents for Oversea Governments, Pay Division, 1954-1997
- Crown Agents for the Colonies, Pay Division, 1863-1954
- Joint Agents General for the Crown Colonies, Pay Division, 1833-1863
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 388 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The functions of the Pay Division since 1833 have included the payment of Crown Agents Office salaries, allowances and pensions; the payment of salaries and allowances of officers on leave from oversea governments; the payment of pensions and gratituities on behalf of oversea governments; the management on behalf of oversea governments of widows' and orphans' pension funds and schemes, superannuation and provident funds; the settlement of monies due to the estate of deceased officers; the collection of UK income tax and of colonial and overseas income taxes; and the payment of invoices for goods ordered on behalf of oversea governments.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3994/
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Crown Agents for the Colonies and predecessor: Pay Office Files
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