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Board of Trade: Committee on Shares of No Par Value: Reports and Correspondence
Catalogue reference: BT 287
What's it about?
BT 287
Records of and relating to the Committee on Shares of No Par Value.Few departmental papers have survived and this series consists mainly of secretariat working papers, circulated papers, and written and oral evidence presented to the committee....
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BT 287
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Committee on Shares of No Par Value: Reports and Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
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1952-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of and relating to the Committee on Shares of No Par Value.
Few departmental papers have survived and this series consists mainly of secretariat working papers, circulated papers, and written and oral evidence presented to the committee. There are also some unregistered files of J Cowen, assistant secretary in the Insurance and Companies Department, who was in attendance at some of the meetings. The secretary to the committee was a principal in the same department.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Files relating to shares of no par value can also be found in 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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Board of Trade, Committee on Shares of No Par Value, 1952-1954
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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29 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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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 Committee on Shares of No Par Value was appointed by the President of the Board of Trade on 29 December 1952 under the chairmanship of Montagu L Gedge QC (1899-1958) 'to consider whether it was desirable to amend the Companies Act 1948, so as to permit the issue of shares of no par value; and, if so, to consider and report what amendments in the Act should be made for this purpose, having due regard to the need for safeguards for investors and for the public interest'.
The report was published in January 1954 (Cmd 9112).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3323/
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Board of Trade: Committee on Shares of No Par Value: Reports and Correspondence
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