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Commonwealth Office: Dependent Territories Constitutions Department: Registered Files...
Catalogue reference: FCO 56
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FCO 56
This series contains records of the Dependent Territories Constitutions Department of the Commonwealth Office created between January 1967 and October 1968, dealing with general policy for the future status and constitutional development of the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 56
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Office: Dependent Territories Constitutions Department: Registered Files (TC Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1967-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Dependent Territories Constitutions Department of the Commonwealth Office created between January 1967 and October 1968, dealing with general policy for the future status and constitutional development of the remaining dependent territories.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For earlier records see CO 1058
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- TC file series
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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)
- Commonwealth Office, Dependent Territories Constitutions Department, 1966-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 30 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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- Topics
- International
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1967-1968
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are 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 former Colonial Office Constitutional Planning Department became the Dependent Territories Constitutions Department upon the formation of the Commonwealth Office in August 1966. It handled future constitutional policy questions, the co-ordination of constitutional development, new constitutional patterns and the progress of constitutional business through the UK legislative programme.
The department was merged into the Commonwealth Policy and Planning Department in March 1968. Upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968 responsibility for constitutional development passed to the Commonwealth Co-ordination Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14937/
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