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 · 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 · 17 July 1945 English

SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS FOR REVOCATION OR RETENTION OF DEFENCE REGULATIONS MADE OR AMENDED BETWEEN 1st SEPTEMBER, 1944, AND 1st JUNE, 1945. I.—Regulation to be revoked at cessation of hostilities in …


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 · 28 November 1945 English

(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) SECRET E.L. (45) 23 COPY NO. 28TH NOVEMBER, 1945. CABINET EMERGENCY LEGISLATION COMMITTEE Note by the Joint Secretaries 1. Two …


The National Archives · 1 June 1945 English

REVOCATION OF DEFENCE REGULATIONS I. Regulations to be revoked at Stage A which have not been revoked. Defence (General) Regulations 24 (Control of lights and sounds) 44A (Power to exclude …


The National Archives · 24 November 1945 English

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS 1945 Nos. SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ORDERS IN COUNCIL DIRECTING THAT DEFENCE REGULATIONS SHALL HAVE EFFECT BY VIRTUE OF THE SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) …


The National Archives · 4 June 1945 English

Regulation 47AAD 47BAA 58AAA 60CAA 68D 68E DEFENCE REGULATIONS, AND AMENDMENTS OF DEFENCE REGULATIONS, MADE SINCE THE 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1944 1. Defence (General) Regulations, 1939 Subject Department Other Suggested matter …


The National Archives · 1 November 1945 English

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS 1945 Nos. SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) ORDERS IN COUNCIL DIRECTING THAT DEFENCE REGULATIONS SHALL HAVE EFFECT BY VIRTUE OF THE SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) …


The National Archives · 11 August 1945 English

(THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT) CONFIDENTIAL E.L.(45) 13 COPY NO. 11TH AUGUST, 1945 CABINET EMERGENCY LEGISLATION COMMITTEE REVOCATION OF DEFENCE REGULATIONS AT THE END OF …


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. …