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Catalogue description Unemployment Assistance Board and Assistance Board: Assistant Solicitor's Registered Files (LD Series)
| Reference: | AST 14 |
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| Title: | Unemployment Assistance Board and Assistance Board: Assistant Solicitor's Registered Files (LD Series) |
| Description: |
Correspondence and papers relating to questions of the interpretation of legislation, notably the Unemployment Act 1934, and the operation of unemployment assistance and wartime assistance referred for legal opinion to the Solicitor of the Unemployment Assistance Board and the Assistance Board. The files consist of correspondence of the Assistant Solicitor, together with copies of rulings of the Solicitor and related papers from files of the Ministry of Labour. The series was discontinued about 1941 and subsequent rulings appear on the appropriate subject file. |
| Date: | 1925-1941 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | LD file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Assistance Board, Legal Division, 1940-1948 Unemployment Assistance Board, Legal Division, 1934-1940 |
| Physical description: | 75 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Accruals: | No further accruals. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
From 1934 to 1940, the Unemployment Assistance Board used the services of an assistant solicitor seconded from the Ministry of Labour for legal advice and interpretation of legislation. Initially there was a legal division within the board but latterly it seems to have operated from the Ministry of Labour rather than the board's offices and in 1938 it was dissolved. The practice of obtaining advice from the Ministry of Labour's solicitor was continued by the Assistance Board until 1945, though questions relating to supplementary pensions were referred to the solicitor of the Ministry of Health. In 1945 these officials were replaced as solicitor of the board by the solicitor of the Ministry of National Insurance, when ministerial responsibility for the board passed to that department. This practice was continued by the National Assistance Board until its abolition in 1966. |
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