| Description | File of correspondence and reports concerning: new banking legislation (Draft Banking Act 1971) seeking to unify existing legislation in the area and achieve closer financial co-ordination between the islands; the future of the East Caribbean Currency Authority in the light of the establishment of a Central Bank for Barbados and the new legislation; tax havens; and the Commonwealth Caribbean Regional Monetary Conference. Includes: draft of the Banking Act 1971 (for the West Indies Associated States and Montserrat); report on commercial banking in the Associated States and Montserrat, with comments on the 1971 draft Act; report on tax havens; report prepared by the Treasury (HMT), Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Inland Revenue on British dependent territories and tax haven business; third draft of Banking Act 1971; and reports on Caribbean visits, February to March 1971 and 1972, May and December 1972. |