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Board of Trade and successors: Insurance and Companies Department and successors:...

Catalogue reference: BT 398

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BT 398

Registered files concerned with company law reform and its impact on company registration including the Department's contribution to the Committee on Company Law (Jenkins), European company law directives and the policy on fees. There are also...

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Reference

BT 398

Title
Board of Trade and successors: Insurance and Companies Department and successors: Registered Files (CR Series)
Date

1948-2000

Description

Registered files concerned with company law reform and its impact on company registration including the Department's contribution to the Committee on Company Law (Jenkins), European company law directives and the policy on fees. There are also files relating to computerisation, the introduction of microfiche and the future of and possible privatisation of Companies House.

Related material

Other records relating to the Committee on Company Law (Jenkins) are in BT 58 BT 298

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

CR series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Board of Trade, Insurance and Companies Department, 1941-1970
  • Companies House, 1988-1988
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Companies Division, 1983-2007
  • Department of Trade and Industry, Insurance and Companies Department, 1970-1974
  • Department of Trade, Companies Division, 1974-1983
Physical description

395 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2010 Companies House

Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Computing
Custodial history

Records transferred from the then Department of Trade and Industry following the establishment of Companies House as an agency.

Accumulation dates

circa 1960s to circa 2000

Accruals

Low volume of accruals expected.

Selection and destruction information

Records selected under theme 3.1.4 Regulation and support of eceonomic activity by government, including industry, services, agriculture, transport, energy, trade and employment and productivity and OSP 36 Records of Internal Administration.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16393/

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