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Catalogue description Colonial Office and successors: Colonial Service Division, later Overseas Service Division: Registered Files (CSA, CSB, OSA and BCD Series)
| Reference: | CO 1017 |
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| Title: | Colonial Office and successors: Colonial Service Division, later Overseas Service Division: Registered Files (CSA, CSB, OSA and BCD Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains files relating to a wide range of work carried out by the Colonial and Overseas Service Divisions, especially pensions, personnel matters, the establishment of public services in colonial and former colonial territories and the recruitment and training of members of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Service. The Divisions were also involved in the implementation of the Overseas Service Aid Scheme, and there are files relating to the territories in the scheme in this series. |
| Date: | 1948-1966 |
| Related material: |
Later service files can be found in OD 16 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | BCD, CSA, CSB and OSA file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 909 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 1982-2014 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Custodial history: | OSA files relating to the administration of colonial service pensions passed to the Department of Technical Co-operation when that function was transferred from the Colonial Office in 1961 and was transferred to successive overseas development departments, ultimately to the Department for International Development in 1997. |
| Accruals: | No further accruals are expected |
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