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Collection 39: India reforms - Family Pension Funds

Catalogue reference: IOR/L/AG/29/1/64

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IOR/L/AG/29/1/64
Title
Collection 39: India reforms - Family Pension Funds
Date
1931-1954
Description

Please specify the part number when ordering:. Part 1, Separation of Burma. Debt position. Balance of various funds. Statement on the IO Provident Fund; Part 2, Separation of Burma. Position of subscribers to the Funds; Part 3, Future treatment of the Funds - Exemption from Income Tax. Correspondence with Sir F Leith Ross; Part 4, Security; Part 5, Transfer of balances to Sterling. Government Actuary's estimate of cost of Scheme. Points raised in 1933 circular letters summarised. Findings of Joint Select Committee; Part 6, Transfer of balances. Miscellaneous questions raised by, or on behalf of, Subscribers and beneficiaries; Part 7, Family Pension Funds invested in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Liability to Estate Duty; Part 8 - Papers transferred to Coll. 155/29 L/AG/29/1/175, (Transfer of Balances. Functions of Trustees); Part 9, Miscellaneous; Part 10, Questions arising in correspondence with Subscribers serving in Burma. Decision that Burma Advisers to Secretary of State may advise but formal decision to belong to Secretary of State and Indian Advisers only; Part 11, Enquiries as to position of Funds in the event of the transfer of further powers to the Government of India (1940); Part 12, Proposals regarding Funds. General file. (Legality) (Secretary of State's position); Part 13, Measures taken following the transfer of Power in India. Rule 15A; Part 14, Position of subscribers to Civil Funds under the P.R. rules (including their position in regard to Income Tax) ''Millard Tucker Committee''; Part 15, Transfer of Power to Government of India 1948. Position of subscribers and beneficiaries in the untransferred funds; Part 16, Surrender values Indian Military Widows' and Orphans Fund (Rules 15A and B); Part 17 - Lacking; Part 18, Indian Civil Service Family Pension Fund untransferred and non-European members winding up fund (working file); Part 19 - Lacking; Part 20, Winding up of Indian Military Service Family Pension Fund (untransferred) and Indian Military Widows' and Orphans Fund untransferred. Working File

Arrangement

The parts are divided across two boxes as follows. Parts 1-7, 8-12 are in the first box and Parts 13-16, 18 and 20 in the second box.

Related material

Part 8 was transferred to Collection 155, Part 29 (IOR/L/AG/29/1/175).

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British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
2 boxes, 20 parts.
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Unrestricted

Physical condition
Parts 17 and 19 noted as Lacking 17/06/2019.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/ebeb2a96-f486-4c48-a2e7-d12753a2757c/

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IOR/L/AG/29

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Collection 39: India reforms - Family Pension Funds