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Board of Trade and successors: Solicitor's Department and successors: Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: BT 103
What's it about?
BT 103
This series contains files of the Board of Trade and its successors concerning the drafting of subordinate legislation, and on litigation and prosecutions arising in relation to the acts, regulations and orders administered by the board and its...
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 103
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Solicitor's Department and successors: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1860-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the Board of Trade and its successors concerning the drafting of subordinate legislation, and on litigation and prosecutions arising in relation to the acts, regulations and orders administered by the board and its successors.
Some files concern instructions to law officers and counsel to advise, and their opinions. Many files relate to the period during and immediately after the Second World War, and cover such topics as wartime trade, treaties of peace, consumer rationing and price controls. Other files concern company law, trade descriptions, trademarks, patents and copyright, restrictive trade practices, bankruptcy, liquidation, customs and import duties, employment and industry, industrial development and investment, weights and measures, monopolies and mergers, hallmarking, hire purchase, international trade, consumer protection, tourism, and transport.
A number of files concern proceedings of the Vehicle and General Tribunal, under the Tribunals of Inquiry Act 1921. The Board of Trade solicitor acted as legal advisor to the Export Credits Guarantee Department, and a number of these files are included.
The series also contains indexed volumes of general minute books of the department (1875-1941).
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The in-letters of the solicitor to the Board of Trade do not survive before 1910.
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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)
- 1820 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1969 Board of Trade
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Registers and indexes of the department's correspondence (1879-1902) are in BT 19 and BT 23
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3144/
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Board of Trade and successors: Solicitor's Department and successors: Correspondence and Papers
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