V-3 - Act respecting the sale of unclaimed goods

Section 2 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

2. Such list shall contain a notice to all persons who claim any of such goods, to come within six months from the date of such notice, to prove that they are owners of any of such goods, and to receive the same, upon payment of any charge for freight, carriage or otherwise that has accrued thereon, with a proportionate share of the expense of advertising, and a reasonable charge for wharfage or storage.

Such list shall also contain a notice that, at the expiration of the said six months, packages, parcels and other articles then remaining unclaimed will be opened and examined, and if nothing appears therein whereby to ascertain the names of the owners, consignees or persons entitled to receive the same, that then, at the expiration of six months thereafter, the same will be sold by auction, and the proceeds, deducting all expenses, deposited in the hands of the Minister of Finance.

Fruit and other perishable articles shall be immediately advertised, and may be sold within one week after the date of such advertisement.

R. S. 1964, c. 316, s. 2.