Catalogue description Board of Trade: Committee on Company Law Amendment: Papers

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Reference: BT 146
Title: Board of Trade: Committee on Company Law Amendment: Papers
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Papers of the Committee on Company Law Amendment.

Date: 1930-1946
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Board of Trade, Committee on Company Law Amendment, 1943-1945

Physical description: 20 papers
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee on Company Law Amendment, under the chairmanship of Mr. Justice Cohen, was appointed by the President of the Board of Trade on 26 June 1943.

Its terms of reference were 'to consider and report what major amendments are desirable in the Companies Act 1929, and, in particular, to review the requirements prescribed in regard to the formation and affairs of companies and the safeguards afforded for investors and for the public interest'.

The Committee's Report was published by HMSO in June 1945 as Cmd.6659. A copy is included in the series as Piece No. 20.

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