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Board of Trade and successors: Companies Division: Registered Files (COS Annual Series)...
Catalogue reference: BT 299
What's it about?
BT 299
Registered files of the Board of Trade's Companies Division and its successors.This series contains files relating to the application and amendment of company law, particularly of the Companies Act 1948, including investigations made under the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 299
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Companies Division: Registered Files (COS Annual Series) (Post 1963)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1914-1986
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registered files of the Board of Trade's Companies Division and its successors.
This series contains files relating to the application and amendment of company law, particularly of the Companies Act 1948, including investigations made under the latter and following from the report of the Company Law (Jenkins) Committee. Many files relate to individual companies, including insurance companies.
The series includes files re-registered from the COS Annual series (BT 298) dating from before 1963, and also re-registered files which would otherwise be found amongst the records of the Department of Trade and Industry (FV) division: Records of the Industrial and the Industrial and Commercial Policy Divisions and Groups.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records from the Company Law (Jenkins) Committee are in BT 147
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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)
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- Board of Trade, Companies Department, 1904-1941
- Board of Trade, Insurance and Companies Department, 1941-1970
- Department of Trade and Industry, Insurance and Companies Department, 1970-1974
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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354 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 unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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, from 1994
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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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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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In 1941, the Companies Division of the Board of Trade was renamed the Insurance and Companies Department. By 1964 the Department's name had been expanded to Insurance and Companies Department and Bankruptcy Department to reflect its responsibilities in relation to company liquidations.
The Companies Division's major tasks were general responsibilites under the Companies and Bankruptcy Acts and the Insurance Companies Act 1958. It was also concerned with changes in Company Law, investigations into firm's activities and affairs, including winding-up under the Companies Act 1948, and international negotiations on insurance and company law. In addition, the Division was responsible for the Industrial and Provident Societies Bill 1963 and the Protection of Depositors Act 1963, the Prevention of Fraud (Investments) Act 1958, including Unit Trusts, the Registration of Business Names Act 1916, and was concerned with consultations on the Company Law (Jenkins) Committee Report leading to the Companies Act 1967.
On 1 March 1973, the Department of Trade and Industry reorganised insurance, companies and bankruptcy work into three separate divisions, each headed by an Under Secretary. These were named the Insurance Division, the Companies Division and the Insolvency Service (InsS).
The Insolvency Service was concerned with all aspects of insolvency policy, including questions relating to the European Economic Community (EEC), HQ administration of the Official Receiver Service, the provincial Official Receiver Service, statutory responsibilities in relation to Trustees and Liquidators and the accounting and management of funds. Branch 1 dealt with bankruptcy matters and Branch 2 consisted of the Official Receiver Service in the High Court.
In April 2006 Companies Investigation Branch merged with the Insolvency Service.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3335/
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Board of Trade and successors: Companies Division: Registered Files (COS Annual Series) (Post 1963)
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