B-5.1 - Unclaimed Property Act

Section 16 Disposition versions

2011-06-13

16. Except in relation to the provisional administration of property described in subparagraph 5 of the first paragraph of section 2, the Minister must promptly make known the Minister’s capacity as administrator, by a notice published once in the Gazette officielle du Québec and in a newspaper circulated in the locality where the property was situated at the time the Minister became the administrator of the property.

If the property under the provisional administration of the Minister is property referred to in subparagraph 6 of the first paragraph of section 2 and the right-holder was domiciled or was deemed to be domiciled in Québec at the time the Minister became the administrator of the property, the notice must also be published in a newspaper circulated in the locality of the last known address of the right-holder, or, if there is no known address, in the locality where the act establishing the right-holder’s rights was made, if different from the locality where the property was situated.

2011, c. 10, s. 16.