Register of commerce

This file relates to the Bahrain Register of Commerce. It contains correspondence concerning:

• A change in Gray Mackenzie and Company Limited's policy of non-association with local businessmen when a 30 per cent share of the Bahrain Shipway Company Limited was purchased by Sayyed Hussein Yateem (1)
• An Air Ministry invitation to tenderers for building work at Jufair, and confirmation that George Wimpey & Company can now work freely in Bahrain (2, 5)
• The Bahrain Register of Commerce Regulation, 1963, the Bahrain Register of Commerce (Amendment) Regulation, 1963, and the Bahrain Register of Commerce (Investigation Board) Regulation, 1963 [enclosed]. It includes an exchange between the Political Agent E P Wiltshire and the Ruler Sheikh Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa (3-4, 6, 11)
• A request from the London Chamber of Commerce for information on the position in Bahrain with respect to company law, ahead of a trade mission to the Gulf (7)
• Difficulty with an Indian import merchant, which has shown the Bahrain Register of Commerce law to be imperfect (8)
• A decree passed by the Ruler to set up an appeals board dealing with appeals against the registration of businesses in the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and a parallel Queen's Regulation (9-10)
• A steel fabrication yard to be set up by Wimpey (12).