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Coll 1/49 'Aden. Administration and control: changes consequent on Indian constitutional reforms; transfer to HMG' [‎273v] (555/968)

The record is made up of 1 volume (480 folios). It was created in 12 Oct 1933-3 Jun 1937. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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(i ) Regulations under s.71 of the existing Government
of India Act, or
(ii) Acts of the Indian Legislature in force in Aden, and
(presumably)
(iii) Acts of the Bombay Legislative Council in force in
Aden.
It may be that the provision at the end of paragraph
16 will be good enough to ensure that all powers exercisablA
by the Governor-General in Council in relation to Aden and
? by the Bombay Government, shall henceforth be
exercisable by the Governor of Aden. But I am inclined
to doubt, as I gather does also the Legal Adviser,
whether, in fact, this provision is good enough for the
purpose. What is to be the position of an Act of the
Indian Legislature (and ? of the Bombay Legislative
Council) applying at the moment to Aden which is next
year repealed or amended by the Legislature? Will
the Act, in virtue of paragraph 16, in its application to
Aden stand unrepealed or unamended? I presume that this
is the intention, and that after the appointed day the
only authority which can amend or repeal law in force in
Aden in virtue of paragraph 16 will be either the Governor
or the King in Council.
I am not sure how paragraph 26 of the draft Order
will fit in with our draft Commencement and Transitory
Provisions Order.
I suggest that it would he as well as soon as we
have received the Government of India's comments to have a
conference between the Colonial Office draftsman and other
Colonial Office representatives and ourselves, including
one or both of the Parliamentary Counsel who are
responsible for the other Orders under the Act, to ensure
that there is no conflict on points of this kind.
The pledges contained in paragraph 162 of the Joint
Committee's Report were:-

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The volume contains papers regarding the transfer of the civil administration of Aden from the Government of India to the Colonial Office, and the preparation of the Aden Colony Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (1936), and 'Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Aden (1937)'.

The volume is predominantly made up of correspondence between the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Political Department, the Colonial Office, the Aden Chief Commissioner (later Governor) Bernard Reilly, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Legal Advisor's Department, and the Secretary of State for India. The volume also contains numerous heavily-annotated drafts of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and the Royal Instructions, plus minutes of meetings held at the Colonial Office, and extracts from the Home Affairs Committee and the Joint Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform. Final drafts can be found at folios 13-20, in addition to copies of Reilly's inauguration speech (folios 25-28).

The correspondence covers a range of topics, including: Indian and Arab sentiment over the transfer; problems of condominion; the importance of Aden to Britain's imperial aims; representations from the Indian and Aden business communities; the maintenance of representation for Aden subjects at the Bombay High Court; Aden's free port status; questions of income tax and salt duty; the wording of the Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. and Royal Instructions; and a proposal to list the Kuria Muria Islands as a named dependency of Aden, comparable to Shaikh Othman, Imad and Hiswa, and Perim.

The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 4).

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1 volume (480 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 480; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The fold-outs on f 147, f 158 and f 159 are A and B items which are attached to the folios in order to add additional information about the document.

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