Catalogue description Board of Trade: Bankruptcy Law Amendment Committee: Papers

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Reference: BT 148
Title: Board of Trade: Bankruptcy Law Amendment Committee: Papers
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Papers of the Bankruptcy Law Amendment (Blagden) Committee and of a working party set up to consider the committee's report.

Date: 1955-1962
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Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Board of Trade, Bankruptcy Law Amendment Committee, 1955-1962

Physical description: 18 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Bankruptcy Law Amendment Committee, under the chairmanship of His Honour Judge J B Blagden, was appointed by the President of the Board of Trade on 13 October 1955.

Its terms of reference were 'to consider and report what amendments are desirable in (1) the Bankruptcy Acts 1914 and 1926, more particularly in regard to the provisions relating to the discharge of bankrupts; and (2) the Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1914'.

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