Colonial Development and Welfare Acts

Colonial Development Act 1929
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to authorise the making of advances for aiding and developing agriculture and industry in certain colonies and territories, to provide for the extension of the Colonial Stock Acts, 1877 to 1900, to stock forming part of the public debt of certain protected and mandated territories, and to amend the Palestine and East Africa Loans Act, 1926, and section eleven of the Trusts (Scotland) Act, 1921.
Citation	20 Geo. 5. c. 5
Dates
Royal assent	26 July 1929
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

Following the First World War, a group of European settlers emerged in Kenya, known as the Happy Valley set. Under the political guidance of Lord Delamere they sought to ensure that colonial policy suited the interests of these White settlers. However, with a certain amount of migration from the sub-continent of India, then under British rule, the racial exclusivity of the prime areas for settling came into dispute, and in 1923 Lord Devonshire issued the Devonshire Declaration.[1]

Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1940
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision for promoting the development of the resources of colonies, protectorates, protected states and mandated territories and the welfare of their peoples, and for relieving colonial and other Governments from liability in respect of certain loans.
Citation	3 & 4 Geo. 6. c. 40
Dates
Royal assent	17 July 1940
Text of statute as originally enacted

In 1942 the provisions of this act were used initially to fund the British Colonial Research Committee.[2] Later the Colonial Social Science Research Council which was set up in 1944.[3] The Act provided for £5 milion per year for development and £500,000 per year for research.[4]

Colonial Development and Welfare Act 1945
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to increase the amounts payable out of moneys provided by Parliament for the purposes of schemes under section one of the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, 1940, to extend the period during which certain of such schemes may continue in force, and to amend subsection (2) of the said section as respects the Aden Protectorate.
Citation	8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 20
Dates
Royal assent	25 April 1945

The 1946 Act provided a significant extension of the 1940 Act. The financing made available was increased to £120 million for all purposes to be spent between 1946 and 1956.[4]