Appendix IX: Management and Liquidation of Property

(Excerpts from two orders-in-council)

1. P.C. 2483, March 27, 1942. The Custodian may, notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, order that all or any property whatsoever, situated in any protected area of British Columbia, belonging to any person of the Japanese race shall, for the purpose of protecting the interests of the owner or any other person, be vested in the Custodian, and the Custodian shall have full power to administer such property for the benefit of all such interested persons, and shall release such property upon being satisfied that the interests aforesaid will not be prejudiced thereby.
2. P.C. 469, January 19, 1943.

The evacuation of persons of the Japanese race from the protected area has now been substantially completed and it is necessary to provide facilities for liquidation of property in appropriate cases.

Therefore His Excellency the Governor General in Council on the recommendation of the Secretary of State concurred in by the Minister of Mines and Resources, the Minister of Pensions and National Health, the Minister of Labour and the Minister of Fisheries, and under the authority of the War Measures Act, Chapter 206 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, is pleased to order and doth hereby order as follows:

Wherever, under Orders in Council under the War Measures Act, Chapter 206 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, the Custodian has been vested with the power and responsibility of controlling and managing any property of persons of the Japanese race evacuated from the protected areas, such power and responsibility shall be deemed to include and to have included from the date of the vesting of such property in the Custodian, the power to liquidate, sell or otherwise dispose of such property.