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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Kuwait Order in Council Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/10/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/245
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 4 ‘Persian Gulf: British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, agreements, notes and other papers relating to the closure of British Indian post offices in Persia, and the transfer of postal services from British Indian to Persian administration. The specific focus of the volume’s contents is a conference, taki...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1922-1925
Extent:

1 volume (229 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1981
Title:
Coll 5/31 ‘Air Route to India: Prohibition of private flights along the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and notes on the subject of private (or chartered) flights through the Persian Gulf states in special treaty relations with the British Government, these states being: Bahrain, Kuwait (also spelt Koweit), Muscat (Oman), and Sharjah. Prior to 1946, the corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Jun 1933-3 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (622 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3317

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3317
Title:
Coll 25/14 'Orders in Council: Koweit: New Order'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence (copies, drafts, and originals), memoranda, and notes concerning the drafting and issuing of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935. The papers deal with the discussion of the need for a new order in council because of the growth of the oil industry and the likely increase of foreigner...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1932-11 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (263 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3318
Title:
Coll 25/14(1) 'Orders-in-Council: Special Police Officers Regulations Koweit 1948'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the need for and issuing of 'The Special Police Officers regulation, 1947', under the articles of The Kuwait Order in Council, 1935. The regulation gave the Political Agent in Kuwait the power to appoint special police officers to deal with incidents involving those su...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1948-30 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3330
Title:
Coll 25/25 'Orders in Council: Kuwait and Bahrain: Celebration of marriages between foreigners by Political Agents at Bahrain and Koweit'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, drafts, and minute papers relating to the drafting and issue of amendments to The Christian Marriage Regulation, 1922, made under the Bahrain Order in Council, 1913. Amendments to the regulation were thought necessary in order to authorise the Political Agent, Bahrain, to marry n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1937-18 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (115 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3341

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3341
Title:
Coll 25/36 'Orders in Council: Revision of Persian Gulf Orders-in-Council'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the revision of the five Orders in Council in the Persian Gulf: Muscat, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and The Trucial States. The revision was a result of Indian Independence and the transfer of power in the Gulf from the Government of India to HM Government of the United Ki...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1948-2 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (189 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/5/293

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/293
Title:
‘File 7/1 I Kuwait Order-in-Council (Jurisdiction Over Foreigners)’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the introduction of the Kuwait Order in Council (1925) and the subsequent issue of supporting King‘s Regulations by the Persian Gulf Political Resident: The Indian Pilgrim Ships Regulation (1926) and Indian Succession Regulation (1927). It therefore contains drafts pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1919-15 Aug 1927
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/5/294

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/294
Title:
‘File 7/1 II Kuwait Order in Council and Jurisdiction over Foreigners’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the introduction of a new Order in Council to clarify the extent of British jurisdiction over foreigners in Kuwait, prompted by ongoing oil negotiations between Kuwait and the United States. The primary British concern being the removal of the requirement that Britain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1932-6 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/5/295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/295
Title:
‘File 7/1 III Kuwait Order in Council and Jurisdiction over Foreigners’
Scope & Content:
The file is primarily concerned with the issue of King's Regulations to mandate specific penalties for breaches of air navigation regulations issued under the Bahrain, Kuwait, and Muscat Orders in Councils. The file therefore contains exchanges between British officials on the sort of penalties ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1935-20 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)