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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Kuwait Order in Council Place Kuwait, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/882
Title:
File 697/1920 'Koweit Order-in-Council'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Kuwait Order in Council for each year from 1920-1928. The Order in Council refers to the legal instruments whereby His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the territories of the Shaikh of Kuwai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1930
Extent:
1 volume (488 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/12/3304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3304
Title:
Coll 25/1 'Orders in Council: Koweit; Reports on working of'
Scope & Content:
Short annual reports on the workings of the Kuwait Order-in-Council 1925 and 1935 for the years 1930-1947. The reports contain information on the civil and criminal cases tried and the numbers of British subjects and British protected persons registered during each year. The reports were sent b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1931-20 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)