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.


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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 · 26 October 1945 English

CONFIDENTIAL Emergency Laws (Transitional Provisions) Bill. ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. PART I. TEMPORARY CONTINUATION OF EMERGENCY LAWS. Clause. 13. 14. 15. 16. Continuation for a limited period of certain Defence Regula- …


The National Archives · 27 September 1945 English

CONFIDENTIAL 9 GEO. 6. Emergency Laws 1 (Transitional Provisions). DRAFT OF A BILL TO A.D. 1945. Provide for the continuation of certain Defence Regula- tions during a limited period notwithstanding …


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 · 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 · 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 …


The National Archives · 14 September 1945 English

The Bill has been drafted on the assumption that the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Bill will be amended so that clause 1(1)(a) will read "to secure a sufficiency of …