Catalogue description Treasury and Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Vesting Orders

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Reference: BT 272
Title: Treasury and Board of Trade: Trading with the Enemy and Administration of Enemy Property Departments: Vesting Orders
Description:

This series contains orders to vest the property of named individuals and companies in the Custodians (to 1950) and Administrators (from 1950) of Enemy Property; with indexes and other related papers.
Date: 1939-1987
Arrangement:

Revoking Orders are kept with the original Order where possible. Those where the original Order number is not given are in BT 272/69
Related material:

Files of the Enemy Property Branch are in BT 15

A list of vesting orders for China is in BT 271/823

See also the records of the Second World War depts Division within BT
Separated material:

No vesting orders for China have survived
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Administration of Enemy Property Department, 1948-1957

Board of Trade, Enemy Property Branch, 1957-1969

Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Department, 1942-1948

Department of Trade and Industry, Finance and Economic Appraisal Division, 1970-1974

Treasury and Board of Trade, Trading with the Enemy Branch, 1939-1942
Physical description: 79 flat sheets and volumes
Access conditions: Open
Unpublished finding aids:

Indexes and registers to the Vesting Orders are in BT 272/70-78.

Administrative / biographical background:

The power to vest property in the Custodians of Enemy Property was granted to the Board of Trade under the Trading With the Enemy Act 1939, Section 7. The Board was later given the power to vest property in the Administrators of Enemy Property by the Distribution of German Enemy Property (No 1) Order 1950 (SI 1950 No 1642) and by various Peace Treaty Orders.

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