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Board of Trade: Company Law Committee
Catalogue reference: BT 147
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BT 147
Papers of the Company Law Committee.The file prefix COSX was allocated to the Committee's files.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 147
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Company Law Committee
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of the Company Law Committee.
The file prefix COSX was allocated to the Committee's files.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other files of the Department covering action following from the report are in BT 299
For related files of the Companies Department see BT 58
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Trade, Company Law Committee, 1959-1962
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 127 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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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Company Law Committee, under the chairmanship of the Right Honourable Lord Jenkins, was appointed by the President of the Board of Trade on 10 December 1959.
Its terms of reference were 'to review and report upon the provisions and working of the Companies Act, 1948, the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act, 1958, except in so far as it relates to industrial and provident societies and building societies, and the Registration of Business Names Act, 1916, as amended; to consider in the light of modern conditions and practices, including the practice of take-over bids, what should be the duties of directors and the rights of shareholders; and generally to recommend what changes in the law are desirable'.
The Committee's report (Cmnd 1749) was presented to parliament by the President in June 1962.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3185/
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