Catalogue description Committee of Imperial Defence: War Emergency Legislation Committee and War Legislation Committee: Minutes and Memoranda (WEL and WL Series)

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Reference: CAB 52
Title: Committee of Imperial Defence: War Emergency Legislation Committee and War Legislation Committee: Minutes and Memoranda (WEL and WL Series)
Description:

This series consists of the minutes and memoranda of the War Emergency Legislation Committee, 1925-1937, of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Defence Bill and Regulations, 1935-1937, and of the War Legislation Committee, 1937-1939, together with its sub-committees.

Date: 1924-1939
Arrangement:

Chronological by committee

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

Committee of Imperial Defence, War Emergency Legislation Committee, 1925-1937

Committee of Imperial Defence, War Legislation Committee, 1937-1939

Home Office, Inter-Departmental Committee on the Defence Bill and Regulations, 1935-1937

Physical description: 9 volume(s)
Accumulation dates: 1925-1937
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The War Emergency Legislation Committee was established by the Committee of Imperial Defence in 1924, and the War Legislation Committee which succeeded it was appointed in 1937. These committees were part of the group of pre-war committees whose activities were largely co-ordinated by the Joint Oversea and Home Defence Committee.

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