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Monopolies and Mergers Commission, Restrictive Practices Commission and Competition...
Catalogue reference: JD 2
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JD 2
Files in relation to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and Competition Commission's records on procedures, internal discussions regarding conferences, legislation, proposed company mergers and inquries - reports and monitoring.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JD 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Monopolies and Mergers Commission, Restrictive Practices Commission and Competition Commission: Registered Files, General (G Series), Inquiry, Reports and Monitoring
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1953-2005
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files in relation to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and Competition Commission's records on procedures, internal discussions regarding conferences, legislation, proposed company mergers and inquries - reports and monitoring.
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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)
- G (general)
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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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- Competition Commission, 1998-1998
- Monopolies and Mergers Commission, 1973-1999
- Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission, 1949-1956
- Monopolies Commission, 1956-1973
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 109 file(s)
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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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1994 Monopolies and Mergers Commission
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- G Series ran from 1949 to mid-1980s; Inquires, reports and monitoring files from 1982-2013
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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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The Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission was set up on 1 January 1949, in response to the recommendations of several committees of inquiry into restrictive commercial activity. It was established under the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices (Inquiry and Control) Act 1948. It was reconstituted as the Monopolies Commission on 31 October 1956 by the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1955. The commission was again reconstituted, and its powers extended, by the Monopolies and Mergers Act 1965. In 1969 oversight of the Commission passed to the Department of Employment and Productivity, and in 1970 to the Department of Trade and Industry. Under the Fair Trading Act 1973 the Commission became, from 1 November 1973, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, with wider powers to deal with references either from the Office of Fair Trading or from the Department of Trade and Industry. On 1 April 1999, as a result of the Competition Act 1998, it became the Competition Commission. Files in this series account for all the machinery of government changes up to 2013 until the Competition and Markets Authority was formed to absorb a wide variety of departments.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9951/
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Records of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, predecessors and successors
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Monopolies and Mergers Commission, Restrictive Practices Commission and Competition Commission: Registered Files, General (G Series), Inquiry, Reports and Monitoring