Catalogue description Board of Trade and successors: Insurance and Companies Department and successors: Registered Files (CR Series)

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Reference: BT 398
Title: Board of Trade and successors: Insurance and Companies Department and successors: Registered Files (CR Series)
Description:

Registered files concerned with company law reform and its impact on company registration including the Department's contribution to the Committee on Company Law (Jenkins), European company law directives and the policy on fees. There are also files relating to computerisation, the introduction of microfiche and the future of and possible privatisation of Companies House.

Date: 1948-2000
Related material:

Other records relating to the Committee on Company Law (Jenkins) are in

BT 58

BT 298

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CR series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Insurance and Companies Department, 1941-1970

Companies House, 1988-

Department of Trade and Industry, Companies Division, 1983-2007

Department of Trade and Industry, Insurance and Companies Department, 1970-1974

Department of Trade, Companies Division, 1974-1983

Physical description: 395 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2010 Companies House

Custodial history: Records transferred from the then Department of Trade and Industry following the establishment of Companies House as an agency.
Accumulation dates: circa 1960s to circa 2000
Selection and destruction information: Records selected under theme 3.1.4 Regulation and support of eceonomic activity by government, including industry, services, agriculture, transport, energy, trade and employment and productivity and OSP 36 Records of Internal Administration.
Accruals: Low volume of accruals expected.

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