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Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files, Coal Nationalization (CN and CL/N Series)

Catalogue reference: TS 74

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TS 74

Selected registered files relating to work by the Treasury Solicitor for the National Coal Board on the nationalisation of the coal industry. The files cover the payment of compensation to colliery owners by district valuation boards and related...

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Reference
TS 74
Title
Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files, Coal Nationalization (CN and CL/N Series)
Date
1931-1961
Description

Selected registered files relating to work by the Treasury Solicitor for the National Coal Board on the nationalisation of the coal industry. The files cover the payment of compensation to colliery owners by district valuation boards and related arbitrations.

The files contain evidence in the form of survey plans and production statistics supplied by mine owners and companies to the valuation boards or given in evidence at arbitration hearings. Some transcripts of hearings are also preserved with the papers.

Arrangement
Arrangement

The records are arranged in the order of their original file references.

Related material

Other files on work undertaken concerning the legal aspects of the transfer of assets under coal nationalisation are in POWE 36

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
CN and CL/N file series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, 1876-1876
Physical description
425 file(s)
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background

The work passed to the Treasury Solicitor in 1948, having previously been dealt with by the legal branch of the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14142/

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Treasury Solicitor: Registered Files, Coal Nationalization (CN and CL/N Series)