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Series
Treasury and Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property...
Catalogue reference: BT 272
What's it about?
BT 272
This series contains orders to vest the property of named individuals and companies in the Custodians (to 1950) and Administrators (from 1950) of Enemy Property; with indexes and other related papers.
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 272
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Title (The name of the record)
- Treasury and Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Vesting Orders
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1987
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains orders to vest the property of named individuals and companies in the Custodians (to 1950) and Administrators (from 1950) of Enemy Property; with indexes and other related papers.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Revoking Orders are kept with the original Order where possible. Those where the original Order number is not given are in BT 272/69
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also the records of the Second World War depts
A list of vesting orders for China is in BT 271/823
Files of the Enemy Property Branch are in BT 15
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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No vesting orders for China have survived
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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)
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- Board of Trade, Administration of Enemy Property Department, 1948-1957
- Board of Trade, Enemy Property Branch, 1957-1969
- Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Department, 1942-1948
- Department of Trade and Industry, Finance and Economic Appraisal Division, 1970-1974
- Treasury and Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Branch, 1939-1942
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 79 flat sheets and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Indexes and registers to the Vesting Orders are in BT 272/70-78.
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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 power to vest property in the Custodians of Enemy Property was granted to the Board of Trade under the Trading With the Enemy Act 1939, Section 7. The Board was later given the power to vest property in the Administrators of Enemy Property by the Distribution of German Enemy Property (No 1) Order 1950 (SI 1950 No 1642) and by various Peace Treaty Orders.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3308/
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Treasury and Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Vesting Orders
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