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.


Filters: Year: 1945

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 10 August 1945 English

SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL. The Committee had before then a note by the Joint Secretaries (E.L.(45) 12) covering a revised draft of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) …


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 · 3 August 1945 English

LORD PRESIDENT SUPPLIES AND SERVICES (TRANSITIONAL POWERS) BILL 1. The Emergency Legislation Committee have examined the question whether the scope of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) Bill should be …


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 · 28 March 1945 English

of the harbour authority. For example the ships of a particular shipping company may be still using a port, but if those ships are in the Government's service the Government …