Catalogue description Department of Technical Co-operation and successors: Personnel Services: Registered Files (SA Series)

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Details of OD 16
Reference: OD 16
Title: Department of Technical Co-operation and successors: Personnel Services: Registered Files (SA Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the Personnel Services Executive relating to the administration of support for staff working on development projects overseas, including the Overseas Service Aid Scheme (OSAS), the British Expatriates Supplementation Scheme (BESS) and the Overseas Service Pension Fund, and the administration of various pensions for which the overseas development departments were responsible.

Date: 1947-1978
Related material:

Earlier files on these subjects can be found in CO 1017

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

Department of Technical Co-operation, Personnel Services Executive, 1961-1964

Ministry of Overseas Development, Personnel Services Executive, 1964-1970

Overseas Development Administration, Personnel Services Executive, 1970-1974

Physical description: 938 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1990 Overseas Development Administration

Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

One responsibility of the Personnel Services Executive was to find placements for overseas civil servants who became unemployed when the colonies in which they worked gained independence.

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