Catalogue description Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Dependent Territories Constitutions Department and predecessors: Registered Files (CNS Series)

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Details of CO 1058
Reference: CO 1058
Title: Colonial Office and Commonwealth Office: Dependent Territories Constitutions Department and predecessors: Registered Files (CNS Series)
Description:

This series contains records of the departments of the Colonial Office and the Commonwealth Office that dealt with constitutional development and related matters for the remaining dependent territories.

Date: 1965-1967
Related material:

For later records see FCO 56

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: CNS file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Colonial Office, Constitutional Planning Department, 1966-1966

Colonial Office, International Relations and General Department, 1961-1966

Commonwealth Office, Dependent Territories Constitutions Department, 1966-1968

Physical description: 42 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accumulation dates: Series ran from 1966 to 1968
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

Constitutional development in, and the staffing of the administrations of, dependent territories had previously been handled by the International Relations and General Department, and then the Constitutional Planning Department of the Colonial Office. A Dependent Territories Constitutions Department was established in the Commonwealth Office to carry out this work.

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