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Board of Trade and successors: Companies Division: Registered Files (COS (P, G and...
Catalogue reference: BT 298
What's it about?
BT 298
Policy, general and record files of the Companies Department. They mainly relate to applications, made under section 19(1) of the Companies Act 1948 and the equivalent provisions of earlier Acts, for licences to register companies without the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 298
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Companies Division: Registered Files (COS (P, G and R suffix) Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1840-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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Policy, general and record files of the Companies Department. They mainly relate to applications, made under section 19(1) of the Companies Act 1948 and the equivalent provisions of earlier Acts, for licences to register companies without the word 'Limited' in their title. Applicant companies were non-commercial companies. The provision of section 19 were discontinued in subsequent legislation.
Other files cover chartered companies, life assurance companies, insurance companies, unit trusts, the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Acts, 1939 and 1958, and the application and amendment of Insurance Companies legislation.
This Companies Division COS series was a single numerical series in which some of the files were given a P, G or R suffix to denote papers on policy decisions, general papers or papers containing background information. The files in this series ostensibly date from 1969 but many contain much older papers enclosed in earlier files in the COS annual series which were subsequently re-registered under new numbers.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For re-registered COS files dating from before 1964 see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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COS (P, G and R suffix) file series
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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)
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- Board of Trade, Commercial Department, 1825-1872
- Board of Trade, Companies Department, 1904-1941
- Board of Trade, Finance Department, 1867-1945
- Board of Trade, Insurance and Companies Department, 1941-1970
- Board of Trade, Railway Department, 1851-1919
- Department of Trade and Industry, Companies Division, 1983-2007
- Department of Trade and Industry, Insurance and Companies Department, 1970-1974
- Department of Trade, Industrial Companies Division, 1974-1983
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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899 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1990 Department of Trade and Industry
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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
- Crime
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing.
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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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Companies Investigation Branch merged with the Insolvency Service in April 2006.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3334/
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