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Series
Board of Trade: Insurance and Companies Department: Companies Investigation Reports
Catalogue reference: BT 397
What's it about?
BT 397
The powers of the Board of Trade to appoint inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company and report on them date back to companies legislation of the mid-nineteenth century. They continued with little change until the Companies Act 1947...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 397
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Insurance and Companies Department: Companies Investigation Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1965
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Description (What the record is about)
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The powers of the Board of Trade to appoint inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company and report on them date back to companies legislation of the mid-nineteenth century. They continued with little change until the Companies Act 1947 (consolidated in the Companies Act 1948). The 1948 Act extended the circumstances in which the Secretary of State could appoint inspectors. For example, the Department could appoint inspectors on its own initiative in certain circumstances. The scope for subsequent action after the inspection was also extended and in addition it could petition for the company to be wound up in certain circumstances.
Investigations are confidential, but depending on the type of investigation involved, the final report may be published.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The reports were not registered within the departmental filing system. They are therefore arranged in chronological order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Some investigation reports and departmental investigation files are in BT 299
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to closure for periods up to 100 years
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2006 Department of Trade and Industry
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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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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Reports selected using the selection criteria in OSP 25:- unpublished reports relating to selected files and reports relating to inspections where a report was published. The reports have not been held within the corporate filing system.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16261/
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Board of Trade: Insurance and Companies Department: Companies Investigation Reports
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