‘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 ...
‘File 7/1 III Kuwait Order in Council and Jurisdiction over Foreigners’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the introduction of King's Regulations under the Kuwait Order in Council. It is concerned with two regulations in particular: the Kuwait Passport Regulation, 1947 to introduce penalties for arriving at Kuwait without a visa, and the Special Police Officers Regulation, ...
‘File 7/1 IV General correspondence regarding Kuwait Order in Council (1949) and King's Regulations made under the Kuwait Order in Council’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with general correspondence sent between the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson and Herbert George Jakins) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir Rupert Hay) respecting the Kuwait Order in Council. Topics covered include the status of Lebanese subjects in Kuw...
‘File 7/1 (a) Intelligence Report of the Chief Special Police Officer, KOC’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of monthly reports from March to December 1949 by the Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmali (F J McLintic and J H W O'Hare), outlining investigations into criminal offences committed by or against those subject to British jurisdiction as per the Kuwait Order in Council; primar...
‘File 7/2 II Service of Summonses, Documents, etc, in Kuwait Vol. 2’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with two extradition requests from the Persian Government for two individuals believed to be residing in Kuwait: Saiyid Abdul Aziz Behbahani and Abdulla Safar. The principal correspondents being the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Gordon Loch), t...
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
‘File 7/4 Registration of Companies under Art 69 of Kuwait Order-in-Council, 1949’
Scope & Content:
The file contains applications and supporting documentation from companies applying for registration with the Kuwait Political Agency, a requirement for companies subject to British jurisdiction under the Kuwait Order in Council. The companies in question are Cable and Wireless; the Eastern Oil ...
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
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The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
The file contains correspondence respecting questions arising from the implementation of the Kuwait Order in Council; the main correspondents are the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson and Herbert George Jakins) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The sort ...
The file contains two letters from F J McLintic, Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmadi, addressed to the Kuwait Political Agent. The letters concern the cancellation of Dudley Preston Lester's appointment as a Special Police Officer, and the appointment of Daniel Dudley Williams. The file contai...
