Series
Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
Catalogue reference: PC 2
Date: 1540-2022
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the...
Series
National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Legal Department
Catalogue reference: COAL 27
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COAL 27
The files in this series are from the Legal Department and detail the National Coal Board's estates, commercial matters, litigation and arbitration as well as related topics.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- COAL 27
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Title (The name of the record)
- National Coal Board and British Coal Corporation: Legal Department
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1946-1997
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Description (What the record is about)
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The files in this series are from the Legal Department and detail the National Coal Board's estates, commercial matters, litigation and arbitration as well as related topics.
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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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- British Coal Corporation, 1987-1997
- National Coal Board, Legal Department, 1947-1987
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 642 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open 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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- The files in this series have been selected to show the range of work of the Legal Department.
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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 Legal Department of the National Coal Board served the board itself, and advised its subsidiary and associated undertakings in respect of estates, conveyancing and commercial work, litigation and arbitration, and parliamentary advice. It was headed by the Legal Adviser, who was solicitor to the board and reported directly to the chairman. It also had responsibility for the regional solicitors' offices.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5275/
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