IOR/R/15/5/297

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 Kuwait, the lack of a definition in the Order in Council for a Kuwaiti corporation, and the effect of the Gulf States becoming British Protectorates. It is also concerned with the introduction of new King's Regulations for Kuwait: the Kuwait Air Navigation Regulation, 1949 (see folios 93-7) and the Kuwait Passport Regulations, 1949 (see folio 103 for a draft version). An annotated copy of the superseded Kuwait Passport Regulation, 1947 can be found on folio 103.

In addition, the file also includes a letter from Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, addressed to the Persian Gulf Political Resident, dated 7 November 1949. It is concerned with proposed measures to control migration into and out of Bahrain.

The 1949 reissues of Orders in Councils for the Gulf States are also included for the following: Kuwait (folios 17-29), Bahrain (folios 32-45), Muscat (folios 46-59), the Trucial States (folios 60-72), and Qatar (folios 73-85).The Arabic content consists of a single letter from the Kuwait Political Agent to the Shaikh of Bahrain — Shaikh Ahmed Al Jabir as Subah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] – forwarding copies of the Kuwait Order in Council (1949).