Series: Committee on Emergency Legislation. Meetings 1(45) - 5(45) Papers 1(45) - 24(45)

User icon Taylor Kenkel
26 August 2022
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A file of meeting minutes, memoranda, and legal documentation concerning the activities of the Committee on Emergency Legislation. The documents cover discussions on the legal implications of the termination of certain wartime contracts; and moves to revoke wartime defence legislation. The legislation covered all aspects of society including finance, banking, price controls, and insurance; the control of industry; and agriculture, including supplies of livestock and agricultural labour. Further legislation covers business; local government; merchant shipping; the emergency services, including the fire services and the police; and the health services, including the medical registration of certain professionals, and the employment of nurses and midwives. The file also covers legislation on transportation, employment controls, housing, evacuation, requisitioning, border controls, and entertainment.


The National Archives · 5 September 1945 English

seem on a broad view to be within the purposes of the Supplies and Services Bill. Similarly Regulation 47B, which relaxes certain requirements as to certificated engineers and so enables …


The National Archives · 31 December 1945 English

In addition the Home Secretary was pressed to omit altogether Regulation 87 of the Defence (General) Regulations, 1939, on the ground that it was quite unnecessary to make it a …


The National Archives · 13 September 1945 English

CONFIDENTIAL STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS 1945 NO. EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ORDER IN COUNCIL REVOKING AND AMENDING CERTAIN DEFENCE REGULATIONS. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the day of , 1945. …


The National Archives · 6 March 1945 English

2 held that a man who had received a commission as surgeon before that date could practice without a certificate after that date notwithstanding the expiry of the Act. The …


The National Archives · 5 May 1945 English

CONFIDENTIAL STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS 1945 No. EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) ORDER IN COUNCIL REVOKING AND AMENDING CERTAIN DEFENCE REGULATIONS. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the day of , 1945. …


The National Archives · 1 May 1945 English

(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) CONFIDENTIAL E.L.(45) 4 COPY NO. 1ST MAY, 1945 WAR CABINET EMERGENCY LEGISLATION COMMITTEE REVOCATION OF DEFENCE REGULATIONS AT THE END …


The National Archives · 1 August 1945 English

SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS BILL THE COMMITTEE had before them a memorandum by the Joint Secretaries (E.L. (45) 10), explaining that the Lord President of the Council had asked …


The National Archives · 21 September 1945 English

EMERGENCY LAWS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) BILL. 1. THE COMMITTEE had before them a memorandum (E.L.(45)18) by the Joint Secretaries, covering a draft of the Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) Bill. 2. THE …


The National Archives · 7 September 1945 English

LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY FOR CONTINUANCE OF EMERGENCY POWERS. 1. The Committee had before them a Memorandum by the Joint Secretaries (E.L.(45)16) on the steps which would be required to continue emergency …


The National Archives · 17 July 1945 English

SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS Regulations which can be revoked forthwith 6A (Returns and notices containing information useful to the enemy) - paragraph (3). 9 (Pigeons) - paragraph (1). 24 (Control of …