Catalogue description Treasury Solicitor: Ministry of Transport Legal Branch and successors: Registered Files (L Series)

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Reference: TS 77
Title: Treasury Solicitor: Ministry of Transport Legal Branch and successors: Registered Files (L Series)
Description:

Registered files in the 'L' (Legal) Series relating to transport and civil aviation, used by the HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor's outstation serving the Ministry of Transport and its successors. The files relate to Crown privilege and the Ministry's interpretation of it, together with the clarification of certain aspects of parliamentary bills.

The files were administered and stored by the Ministry of Transport and its successors.
Date: 1945-1987
Arrangement:

By former reference order by transfer.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: L file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Transport Industries Department, 1976-1997

Department of Transport, 1976-1997

Ministry of Transport, 1919-1941

Ministry of Transport, 1946-1953

Ministry of Transport, 1959-1970

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, 1953-1959

Ministry of War Transport, 1941-1946
Physical description: 88 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Accumulation dates: c1923 to 1990
Selection and destruction information: Files containing reference documents have been destroyed.
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

On an undetermined date between 1923 and 1934 the Ministry of Transport transferred its legal work from its own Secretarial and Legal Department to the Treasury Solicitor, which set up an outstation at the Ministry. The presence of a Treasury Solicitor satellite branch at the Ministry of Transport continued through all of the latter's subsequent departmental re-organisations and its operational name was modified on numerous occasions.

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